And ah, ok, I get it now! The thing about the wrong dates is the kind of thing that is obviously possible, since the more we go back in time, the less material we have to work with and the fact that calendar systems were much less coherent back then makes it more complicated. Even if the specific stuff on Wikipedia sounds very pseudo-scholarly to me, it wouldn't surprise me if we'd gotten the date of a specific event wrong, that kind of thing. I couldn't figure out how a lost decade in recent memory fit into all of that, but I love the idea now that you've explained it! I definitely get that sense of distorted time sometimes so it sounds really fun to think about it.
omg I can't wait to read the end of your story because that sounds glorious and I've really enjoyed the parts you've posted so far.
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Date: 2013-12-10 09:53 am (UTC)And ah, ok, I get it now! The thing about the wrong dates is the kind of thing that is obviously possible, since the more we go back in time, the less material we have to work with and the fact that calendar systems were much less coherent back then makes it more complicated. Even if the specific stuff on Wikipedia sounds very pseudo-scholarly to me, it wouldn't surprise me if we'd gotten the date of a specific event wrong, that kind of thing. I couldn't figure out how a lost decade in recent memory fit into all of that, but I love the idea now that you've explained it! I definitely get that sense of distorted time sometimes so it sounds really fun to think about it.
omg I can't wait to read the end of your story because that sounds glorious and I've really enjoyed the parts you've posted so far.