Molly Dineen's
Heart of the Angel does this to me every time.
To quote myself, from several other threads:
I’ve always thought that our more recent past – even the one we’ve been through ourselves – is somehow more mythical and ungraspable than a historical past we were never part of.
It was watching Molly Dineen's documentary that first inspired that thought.
I would have used Angel tube around the time that the documentary was made (and climbed
those stairs on more than one occasion). I find it both familiar, and mythical - somehow, at the same time.
We tend to compartmentalise and package the past - we talk about the 60's, the 80's, the Noughties as if they are regulated quantities with fixed boundaries. But, when I look back at a time I knew, and try and place myself in it, I get a mix of
before,
now,
soon and
later which makes my place in it almost impossible to fix effectively; not because the passage of time has degraded my memory and made it so, but because every moment really is actually a mix of
before,
now,
soon and
later - and that's what I'm recalling.
(
Heart of the Angel is
available on BBC iplayer.)