long-after-the-event

Updated: July 10, 2025

Oppenheimer, for instance, had never seen an automobile or a motor-cycle. News did occasionally filter in but such dim, long-after-the-event, unreal news. Oppenheimer told me he had not learned of the Russo-Japanese war until two years after it was over. We were the buried alive, the living dead.

Jack London - The Jacket (Star-Rover)