Anecdotal Evidence: `Backward Into Dubious Time'

Anecdotal Evidence: `Backward Into Dubious Time'
Excerpt:
Eric Ormsby cautions in “Railway Stanzas” (Coastlines,1992):

“I do not write this from nostalgia.
I who once revered as a mercy of
certitude the benignity of fact
am skeptical of every reverie
that leads me backward into dubious time.”