silverybees:

Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by Peter Ackroyd which plays with time.

A la Wikipedia:

Hawksmoor transports an idea of time that is detrimental to the idea of time as a linearly progressing direction in time. “Ackroyd’s aim is […] to expose the linear character of time […] for the fabrication that it is, and to propel his readers into a zone of full temporal simultaneity.“ This is achieved by parallelling numerous events happening in 18th-century and 1980s London thus indicating that Dyer and Hawksmoor experience more than only their own time.

A symbol for this idea of a simultaneity of different layers of time is the uroborus:



Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Flour, every Hour, every part of an Flour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.[14]

Ackroyd himself called his concept of time in Hawksmoor “the perpetual present of the past” which “reemerges in the most unlikely ways.”

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