No one could complain about it, or moan for the good old days, without revealing nostalgia for a heroic age that had not actually been heroic—or, alo… - Kim Stanley Robinson

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No one could complain about it, or moan for the good old days, without revealing nostalgia for a heroic age that had not actually been heroic—or, along with heroic, had also been suppressed, limited, inconvenient and dangerous. No, Nirgal had no desire for nostalgia—the meaning of life lay not in the past but in the present, not in resistance but in expression.