Quotation of the Day…

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… is from pages 4-5 of Chelsea Follett’s forthcoming book, The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past:

A popular saying holds that “the past is a foreign country,” but I assure you it is not one where you would wish to vacation. If you could visit the preindustrial past, you would give the experience a zero-star rating. Indeed, the trip might leave you permanently scarred, both physically and in the sense denoting psychological trauma. You might long to unsee the horrors encountered on your adventure and to forget the shocking, gory details.