Connecticut Yankee I should of course have thought of immediately! I'd not come across the other. Thank you.
It does seem strange to me that it's such a modern phenomenon (if it is). Did something happen to the way people conceptualized time around then? (I agree about the simpler forays, though.)
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Date: 2014-03-25 05:03 pm (UTC)It does seem strange to me that it's such a modern phenomenon (if it is). Did something happen to the way people conceptualized time around then? (I agree about the simpler forays, though.)