““Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but vain-glory, crassness and a total ignorance . . . ,” she wrote. She began to reconsider the old, lost world. What had seemed once petty and insular now seemed valuable and dignified; the rules, she saw, had been founded on moral principle. “I am steeping myself in the nineteenth century,” she wrote, “. . . such a blessed refuge from the turmoil and mediocrity of today—like taking sanctuary in a mighty temple.””
![“It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d99/eric-mccormack-2915_amazing-experience_it-was-a-film-the-lost-world-and-it-s-a_122858.jpg)
![“I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e82/eric-mccormack-2915_bits_i-d-never-been-to-africa-this-really-was_204018.jpg)
