" What the hell did people do before electricity and television and the internet?” “I think most of them worked themselves half to death just to stay alive.” “Okay, but what about rich white people with servants to do all the work for them? How the hell did they pass the time?” She thought about all the costume dramas she’d watched. “I believe their lives were so dull they considered a turn about the room entertainment. "

― Susannah Nix , Applied Electromagnetism (Chemistry Lessons, #4)