Debatable Lands and Debatable Times
Sep. 21st, 2022 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmLast night I realised that the time between now and the end of October sits in the same place in my brain as the Forest of Dean. Both are filed under 'A' for Anomaly.
You see, the River Severn isn't the border between Wales and England all along its length (as I feel instinctively that it ought to be), and I always seem to forget this fact. When I find large swathes of Gloucestershire on the western bank, it makes me uneasy, with a whiff of the Reek of Wrongness.
It's the same with the calendar. In March, the clocks go forward at the time of the equinox (well, within 5-10 days of it), a more-or-less simultaneous signal that we have eased from winter to summer. This, I feel, is as it should be. In autumn it's a very different story, and we have to wait about six weeks after the equinox before the clocks change. What am I to do with the resultant temporal liminality?
I don't say that either of these feelings is important, but I wonder if anyone else shares them?
You see, the River Severn isn't the border between Wales and England all along its length (as I feel instinctively that it ought to be), and I always seem to forget this fact. When I find large swathes of Gloucestershire on the western bank, it makes me uneasy, with a whiff of the Reek of Wrongness.
It's the same with the calendar. In March, the clocks go forward at the time of the equinox (well, within 5-10 days of it), a more-or-less simultaneous signal that we have eased from winter to summer. This, I feel, is as it should be. In autumn it's a very different story, and we have to wait about six weeks after the equinox before the clocks change. What am I to do with the resultant temporal liminality?
I don't say that either of these feelings is important, but I wonder if anyone else shares them?