"[Sic]" isn't an exceedingly introspective memoir; Cody seems far more curious about the world than about himself.
I think society in general is far more curious or ready to discuss a whole panoply of deviant behavior it wouldn't have forty years ago.
Besides, as an English journalist observed at the time, "The Americans are far more curious than we are to gaze at all those whose names, from one cause or another, have become household words".
Far more curious is "The Nurture of Jupiter" (1636-37) by Nicolas Poussin, in which the toddler-age future king of the gods is suckling a goat while a nymph holds him in her lap and a muscular shepherd grips the animal by the horns.
One advantage already described, diplomatic skill, blends institutional and attitudinal change, for diplomacy would never have succeeded had not the Byzantine statesmen been far more curious and knowing than Justinian's 5th-century predecessor about the habits, customs, and movements of the barbarian peoples.
This, to me, is a far more fascinating manifestation of time and, in a curious way, a more fitting model for how, quite literally, time is design.
Despite its audience-pleasing flourishes and its bright, sunny atmosphere, Forrest Gump is a far more complicated, and far darker fable than the relatively simplistic The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
A far more nuanced and satisfying experience.
