In the chapter entitled ‘Concerning the Common Nature of All’, Alan Garner tells of a library book which came into his possession, which he kept for 65 years, and which he then returned to the library it had come from.
It’s a good tale, well told.
Alan observes…
“Can we ever claim to possess cultural objects? Or is it more that we are merely stewards passing through the lives and the stories of such things? …..
While we wonder, the book goes its way.”
I have a powsel about a library book, not one that I’d had since I was young, but one which brought back memories of my youth when it came into my possession. Here’s the tale
Powsels re. bends in roads
Alan’s…
“Some years after , we were standing on the Rock and looking out across the fields to the hills. ‘Daddy,’ I said, ‘why does that road bend there?’ So it can get round the corner,’ he said.”
And mine
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A powsel relating to possible time-slips
Alan writes….
“At the mouth of Thursbitch I noticed a block of sandstone. In it was fixed an iron ring. It resembled a bull-baiting stone: and I photographed it..
..Three weeks later, Griselda and I went back to Thursbitch.
There was no ring in the stone; nor was there any sign that one had ever existed
…There was nothing. The surface was unbroken, evenly weathered and covered with undamaged lichen. I photographed it.
A particle physicist friend of ours, when he saw the photographs, pointed out that the iron ring was not rusted but clean and shiny. He said, without wonder, ‘I think you experienced a time-slip.’”
Physics/meta-physics.
And here’s what Mike and I believe to be a timeslip. Mike went for a walk to Cuween cairn
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We both believe the strange inclusion in the image to show steps, steps which might have once led up to the cairn. A time-slip?
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