READING ROCKS!

Today I was thinking as a beautiful old vintage car drove by me with some church-looking family all niced up inside--it made me wonder how folks in the 50s looked at each other in these beautiful cars, like the cars were some weird craft of the future--and how would they look at cars now as bland as my 99 Toyota Camry? How would folks see it in the 19th century--some bizarre and fantastic machine that moves people safely (ish) and rapidly from one place to another--like a teleport or something? But my car is so battered and ugly--if it's a 19th century future vision of streamlined beauty, then it's a vision of "used space" or a "used" future--the idea coined by George Lucas to describe the look he achieved in the "Star Wars" movies from the '70s and '80s. You see that look in "Alien" too; Ridley Scott was cognizant of that idea and made a point to include it in his vision of the story. That movie is such a jam.