It's also about how history gets quickly turned into stories; it always makes me think of a scened in <i>Futurama</i> in which a 30th Century theme park centred about the 20th Century features Hammurabbi partying with Albert Einstein in an hot-air balloon whilst cowboys and Mongols hunt mastodons.
(Note: buckled shoes were popular around 1750; 19th Century American artists portrayed the 17th Century Pilgrims's wearing them because they looked 'old-fashioned', never mind that they were off by a cnetury...so why not believe that Shoeless Joe sang 'Is she really gonna take him home tonight?'?, that's just off by 50 years.)
It's also about how history gets quickly turned into stories; it always makes me think of a scened in <i>Futurama</i> in which a 30th Century theme park centred about the 20th Century features Hammurabbi partying with Albert Einstein in an hot-air balloon whilst cowboys and Mongols hunt mastodons.
(Note: buckled shoes were popular around 1750; 19th Century American artists portrayed the 17th Century Pilgrims's wearing them because they looked 'old-fashioned', never mind that they were off by a cnetury...so why not believe that Shoeless Joe sang 'Is she really gonna take him home tonight?'?, that's just off by 50 years.)