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...
Like drops of scalding water
Curious to use 'scalding', suggesting she was happy to have the present fall away from her, that in some respect...
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...
Where place and time meet
Russell Hoban's is one of the most imaginative, limpid novels I have ever read. Maps loom large in it, real...
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...
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 slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
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