how long is an era...................?

 

     An Oriental wise man always used to ask the divinity in his prayers to be so kind as to spare him from living in an interesting era.  As we are not wise, the divinity has not spared us and we are living in an interesting era.  In any case, our era forces us to take an interest in it.  The writers of today know this.  If they speak up, they are criticized and attacked.  If they become modest and keep silent, they are vociferously blamed for their silence.

-Albert Camus, from his 1957 lecture at the University of Uppsala