Belief in the past
A thoughtful and original definition of regret, with Bowen considering that it affirms the ability to believe in something, if...
Of time and tenses II
Another angle on language and how it shapes or at least influences our perception of time. Here Adam Nicolson discusses...
They had dreams too
One of the most elusive aspects of history, and perhaps insurmountably so, concerns what people felt, thought, and dreamed. Yet...
The past as precious
The opening lines of a less well known novel, Mary Webb's engaging Precious Bane. Â She opens her foreword with a...
The past as a concertina of time
I collect comments on and perceptions of time. This one is striking and I am as guilty of it as...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
The study of vanished things
I recall my sorrow when I learned that the enchantingly named Nonsuch Palace vanished almost without trace, morphing from a...
Of time and tenses I
A fascinating insight into how we fold our perceptions of time into language, or language influences such perceptions. It made...
The slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
Past into future will go
I like this concept of an inheritance as something solidly rooted in the past, but ‘willable forward again and again...
Dustsceawung
A sobering if orthographically challenging and barely pronounceable Old English word meaning 'the contemplation of dust'. Not a question of...
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