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There was hippy shit in the 1930s, and in the 1840s, and in Ancient Greece too?

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Naomi K
Sep 12, 2014
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I'm currently reading Cold Comfort Farm, which is a satirical novel about an upper-class girl who goes to live with some country cousins and decides to whip them into shape. Weirdly, it's sort of science-fictional? It was written in 1932, but takes place in the near future, so there's stuff like television phones and cheap, quick air travel and th…

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