Anyone got the same interest in perspectives of time that I have? I can almost go into a sort of trance just considering the fact that Alice [in Wonderland] Liddell [d 1933] was alive at same time as me [b 1932].

The Trojan War was happening round about the same time as Moses & the Children of Israel were wandering about that wilderness ( & BTW - if they were the Chosen lot, why did Jehovah tell them to turn left on the other side of the Red Sea: if he'd only told them to turn right, then Israel would have all those oilwells, eh?). & for Homer to have written about the Trojan War is about the same, timewise, as Carol Ann Duffy starting on a poem about the Spanish Armada.

I know a man 5 years older than me whose grandfather remembered being held up to watch Napoleon ride by.

Balzac's first mistress had been a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette. His last mistress died in 1930.

A man died today at the age of 80. On the day he was born a man of 80 died. & on the day he was born... So how many men to get you back to the Norman Conquest? Not that many, is it? I make it 12.

Anyone else play these games with time, or find them as fascinating as I do? Any more examples of such?