Julia Blackburn

Not really about Doggerland, is it. It’s the author trying to inhabit the passage of time over thousands of years and communicate that 2000 years distant from here was yesterday, and will be tomorrow, and the flow of irresistible change over time is natural and holds no terrors, whatever may happen in any given moment. Seems a comforting though somewhat anesthetized outlook. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it drones on in another repeat of the formula “author makes appointment to meet archaeologist type person, author is early as always, then author and person take a walk and author describes what they see on the walk with faithful exactitude (what remark a passerby said into his cell phone for instance), and imagines what was there thousands of years ago.”… (mehr)