I used to think that the 'y' in Prynne's name was in 'time' rather
than 'thin'. It's a shame it isn't, because the part-rhyme with 'time'
seems more appropriate.
Theory is an attempt to predict time. Well you can go to the Oracle as
often as you like, most of the 'time' it will be unintelligible,
sometimes seem to have no relation to what happens, and sometimes, but
only in retrospect, exactly what was to be. But always after the
event, as the Lydian king found out when he destroyed a mighty empire.
His own.
I much prefer the Anglo-Saxon charm against corn-devils myself, it
doesn't stop anything untoward happening but at least it says against
it.
As the Bowie song has it: 'you can't change time'. You can re-name it,
if you like, as in a Revolutionary calendar, but it still happens.
Like a pest in the crops.
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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