Memory and nostalgia permeate your books - I think nostalgia is simply memory looked at with sentiment. A friend of mine told me that her recollection of her wedding day was completely different from the video - which she enjoyed much more. When you go to a dinner party, the chef very rarely sits down at the table. And they rarely eat because they're too busy making sure everyone else is having a good time. Except, now she doesn't have to wait 20 years.
Video accelerates that memory.
It was going to happen anyway, so it may as well happen now. It has to be set after 1920, for then people had telephones and cars and plots become accelerated and more varied. I like the New Testament much more than the Old, probably because it has more narrative. I worked briefly in magazines, and a story would come in and then everyone would give it a read and everybody would tamper with it and in the end there was a great big muddle. It's been so really heavily edited - dozens, if not hundreds, of times.