Besides provoking nostalgia in people my age, the design would make it possible to use the device in both curled (worn) and flattened forms, acting as a different kind of display in either scenario.
It is dramatic; powerful stories in histories or conflict-inspired art can easily provoke a nostalgia for the grand struggles of the past, especially among those lucky enough not to have lived through them.
I've watched hours and hours of these videos they provoke bittersweet nostalgia for something I never experienced in the first place.
Inevitably, the Soviet bloc's demise in the 1980s has provoked a nostalgia for the old days of the Cold War.
But for my generation — shaped by "Free to Be You and Me," the Muppets, "Mister Rogers Neighborhoodd," and other progressive, respectful fare — the loss of so much of the original cast has provoked further nostalgia for what was.
It's almost as if Hesse's life provokes a nostalgia and even romanticization of the so-called troubled and angst-ridden notion of the artistic personality.
News that an unfinished manuscript by children's illustrator Richard Scarry is to be coloured up by his son and published this autumn may not immediately thrill the children of today, but it will provoke waves of nostalgia in those of us who grew up with his busy anthropomorphised beasts.
