[Peter, you are causing him physical pain.] The plague hit Europe in the 14th century, Shakespeare did not live until... well, I guess if he were immortal it could have happened, but...
[Right. Just... moving on.]
Sherlock and John? That would be the Victorian Age, sometimes leading into the Edwardian Age. Boringest time? You'd be surprised, definitely not for the people who lived in it!
[His voice warms with sudden enthusiasm.]
It was a time full of change, especially towards the end. The arts were alive with fin de siècle, the anxiety and euphoria that a century was ending. Everyone was excited but also afraid – what would the 1900s bring? Advances in technology and means of communication were everywhere. Everything was brimming with movement and change! Take the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for example. Rationality and science at the forefront – and forensics, which back in the day was still in its infancy.
Newspapers increased their numbers, turning into a mass medium. The telephone was still a very recent invention. New means of traveling and transportation appeared, the automobile, the airplane – which, you of all people should have an appreciation for. Can you imagine it? Being there, experiencing these new technologies for the very first time? The world was changing!
[His eyes are gleaming, his voice rising dramatically, his arms spread, he is so into it.]
These people were living in a time where the world around them sped up considerably. Some were on the losing side of this advancement, of course. A lingering Depression, class unrest, people losing their jobs, and unbeknownst, looming in the very near future [his hand curls into a dramatic fist] the approaching shadow of the Great War.
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[Right. Just... moving on.]
Sherlock and John? That would be the Victorian Age, sometimes leading into the Edwardian Age. Boringest time? You'd be surprised, definitely not for the people who lived in it!
[His voice warms with sudden enthusiasm.]
It was a time full of change, especially towards the end. The arts were alive with fin de siècle, the anxiety and euphoria that a century was ending. Everyone was excited but also afraid – what would the 1900s bring? Advances in technology and means of communication were everywhere. Everything was brimming with movement and change! Take the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for example. Rationality and science at the forefront – and forensics, which back in the day was still in its infancy.
Newspapers increased their numbers, turning into a mass medium. The telephone was still a very recent invention. New means of traveling and transportation appeared, the automobile, the airplane – which, you of all people should have an appreciation for. Can you imagine it? Being there, experiencing these new technologies for the very first time? The world was changing!
[His eyes are gleaming, his voice rising dramatically, his arms spread, he is so into it.]
These people were living in a time where the world around them sped up considerably. Some were on the losing side of this advancement, of course. A lingering Depression, class unrest, people losing their jobs, and unbeknownst, looming in the very near future [his hand curls into a dramatic fist] the approaching shadow of the Great War.