Life reeked with Joy

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This is so good I'm linking to it just to remind me to go back to it.

History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Throughout the comparatively radical years 1815-1870 the western European continent was undergoing a Rampant period of economic modification. Industrialization was precipitating in England. Problems were so complexicated that in Paris, out of a city population of one million people, two million able bodies were on the loose.

Just go read, it makes a lot more sense when you get the contexts; apparently it's been doing the rounds for years, but it's news to me.

Anyway, I can feel my body telling me I'm actually tired (at 1.35am? Early for me), so I'm logging off.