but now , in following the signs , one need not fear the hostilities of the raiders , for they too were overrun , years before , in the theater they had been using as their home , where they had learned how to run the projector , and where they had all watched the ancient reels of gone with the wind over and over until they knew the lines by heart and wondered , each individually , if it were n't possible for such an era to come again on this earth .