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Wander Fifty Ninth Street Central Park Manhattan Sunday Will See

知识 Wander along Fifty-ninth Street and Central Park in Manhattan some Sunday. You will see horse-drawn carriages with topatted coachmen—a vestige of the 1800s. Surrounded by twentieth-century motorcars and modern skyscrapers, these romantic vehicles of a bygone era are anachronous.
Science fiction is deliberately anachronous—it deals with phenomena, gadgetry, accomplishments far off (possibly) in the future.
《》 of time and place
出处 Word Power Made Easy SESSION 16

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