We could be living through the green technological revolution, in which energy has been decarbonised.
In other words, we could be living through a brief gilded age of European flight, which is doomed, like Icarus, to rise too close to the sun.
Now I'm laughing; we're both laughing". This scene epitomises the best thing about this book, which is the way Niffenegger uses time travel as a way of expressing the sense of slippage that you get in any relationship - that you could be living through a slightly different love story from the one your partner is experiencing.
This scene epitomises the best thing about this book, which is the way Niffenegger uses time travel as a way of expressing the sense of slippage that you get in any relationship - that you could be living through a slightly different love story from the one your partner is experiencing.
But for those who had contemplated a divorce long before Sandy, or for couples who already separated, what so many of us have been living through could very well make the difference between a troubled marriage and an irretrievably broken one.
The way life is lived through Twitter.
It could've been living through a father and son's post apocalyptic venture in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, or experiencing racial pains through Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
You could say we're living through the end of days period, or an early experimental phase where anything goes and freewheeling creativity reins.
As any highly paid trendspotter (or savvy 12-year-old) could tell you, we're living through a culinary boomtime for all things small-batch and artisanal: chocolate, jam, mayonnaise, gin.
Yet it could be that Ghost Train spotters are living through a golden age: as not only have Told By An Idiot embarked on a radical revision at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester, there is an old-school staging by Talking Scarlet steaming round the country with a cast led by Hi-de-Hi! star Jeffrey Holland.
Secondly, because the local football team, Leicester City, are living through what could become the greatest story in the history of English football.
