timelines are so terribly weird, because like... wwii was only eighty years ago, but also very soon no one will remember it, but also anne frank was two years older than my grandpa, but he just passed away, and also tolkien died before my mother was born, but also he was kind of the same generation as some of my great-grandparents, and st. therese lived the entirety of her life in the 19th century but she was just the generation before that, and my mother was born just thirty years after world war two and eighty years isn't old for a building unless you're in warsaw and shakespeare lived five centuries ago which is so much but also someone could conceivably be just five degrees of separation away from him