Deep Purple’s Child in Time reflects on the Cold War’s threat of violence, eerily relevant today with Putin’s aggressive actions, showing history’s dangerous repetition.
A child in time—when is that time? Where is the child at that moment? Who does he or she meet then? What is happening around the child? How old is this child, and when can we assume they will slowly grow up? What impressions and thoughts are shaped within the child? As we know, what we experience as children shapes the direction of the rest of our lives. Were you well-guided by your educators as a child, or were you, as some say, neglected? I’ll never forget my mother constantly yelling during my younger years, “If you’re born on a dime, you’ll never be a quarter.”
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