What can I say? Your Biggles fics are very convincing!
Flanders suggests that it was the advent of clocks that really solidified the idea that all hours are exactly the same length. I feel like there must have been some movement in that direction before or no one would have thought to make clocks in the first place? But often social change is uneven and intermittent - maybe the idea took a while to really take hold.
The "American displaced in Britain" theme showed up in Hodgson's A Fair Barbarian, too, although that's not one of the more memorable of her books. (I say this because I don't remember it well...) Clearly a theme she returned to again and again, as well she should, being uniquely positioned to write it!
I haven't yet read The Shuttle, but I will someday. I am slowly (verrrry slowly) working my way through Hodgson's oeuvre, which is VERY large. She is one of those authors who often seems to channel directly from her id, which doesn't always overlap with my id, but it does mean her books are always a ride.
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Date: 2022-06-22 02:56 pm (UTC)Flanders suggests that it was the advent of clocks that really solidified the idea that all hours are exactly the same length. I feel like there must have been some movement in that direction before or no one would have thought to make clocks in the first place? But often social change is uneven and intermittent - maybe the idea took a while to really take hold.
The "American displaced in Britain" theme showed up in Hodgson's A Fair Barbarian, too, although that's not one of the more memorable of her books. (I say this because I don't remember it well...) Clearly a theme she returned to again and again, as well she should, being uniquely positioned to write it!
I haven't yet read The Shuttle, but I will someday. I am slowly (verrrry slowly) working my way through Hodgson's oeuvre, which is VERY large. She is one of those authors who often seems to channel directly from her id, which doesn't always overlap with my id, but it does mean her books are always a ride.