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tags	ja-picks, seed, craft_and_method, trade, corroborated, category/craft-and-method
aliases	@mantel_memoir_2023, loc. 812

Sep 20, 20261 min read

Sixteenth-century people viewed time not as an advancing arrow but as a burning candle.

Evidence

For them, time is not an arrow pointing forward, but a candle burning down. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 812

SEED: SEED: A striking metaphor for historical time that could anchor an essay on period fiction.
corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 812