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Tallis in Wonderland

Philosophy in the Time of Plague, Part 2

Raymond Tallis ruminates on the reckoning and the reconstruction required.

The sixty or so days of lockdown since I wrote the last column seem an age when measured by the progress of Spring from leafless trees to Philip Larkin’s ‘unresting castles’ that ‘thresh/In full grown thickness’. And yet the days seem to have followed each other at an accelerating pace. I am reminded of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, when the time traveller’s world speeds up until the sequence of day and night looks like a stroboscopic flickering.

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