The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History
I’ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists. I listened most recently to the one about “Seth,” a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve. The voiceover referred to him being “nostalgic” for this period, which immediately seemed odd to me. Can one truly be nostalgic for a time period (or place) which one has never experienced? The Websters definition isn’t really specific on the subject:
1 : the state of being homesick : HOMESICKNESS
2 : a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia
Can I, for example, be nostalgic for medieval Scotland?
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I’m nostalgic for dinosaurs.