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Nostalgia, like progress, is dependent on the modern conception of unrepeateable and irreversible time. The romantic nostalgic insisted on the otherness of his object of nostalgia from his present life and kept it at the safe distance. The object of romantic nostalgia must be beyond the present space of experience, somewhere in the twilight of the past or on the island of utopia where time has happily stopped, as on an antique clock. At the same time, romantic nostalgia is not a mere antithesis to progress; it undermines both a linear conception of progress and a Hegelian dialectical teleology. The nostalgic direct his gaze not only backward and sideways, and expresses himself in elegiac poems and ironic fragments, not in philosophical or scientific treatises. Nostalgia remains unsystematic and un-synthesizable; it seduces rather than convinces. ~ Svetlana Boym ~ "The future of Nostalgia"

Mason Cooley (1927 – July 25, 2002) was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Mason Cooley ~ Wikipedia