Historical
Tick Tock
On the difficulty of retaining time with the human beings of the past. The gradual drag of time – while we’re caught on preserve at a call center or sitting thru some other interminable online assembly – may experience like a characteristic of contemporary lifestyles, however, it changed into familiar to Geoffrey Chaucer. His tragic hero Troilus, compelled to attend ten days to be reunited together with his like Criseyde, feels his global decelerating: ‘the days Moore and lenger each night’. Yet if we’re tempted to count on that for Chaucer and different medieval people time turned into honestly much less medical than for us, we want handiest remind ourselves that this ‘Father of English Literature’ also wrote a guide for the most famous timekeeping tool of the center a long time: the astrolabe. Addressed to his ten-year-old son Lewis, the treatise, entitled Bread and Milk for Kids in early manuscript copies, signaled Chaucer’s preference to bring the proper technology of the time to as huge an audience as feasible.
By Dominic Odey3 years ago in Fiction
The Tragedy of Melissa and Doug
Melissa and Doug sat across from each other. In the same chairs they had sat for many years. Many decades even. A whole lifetime they had spent, sat across from one another. Any measure of love either had for the other had dissipated long ago.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Fiction
