{Travelling Cycles [continued (4)]}[8th November 1990]

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Much may depend upon when the invading cycle* arrives: the Normans arrived half-way through a 2048 year (Roman?)** cycle,*** and their effect lasted all but 1024 years.

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Do we still see the effect of the Romans? Well, much more weakly than that of the Normans: although Christianity has just about seen it out.

*[See last previous entry]

**[word in brackets inserted in ms]

***Shurely [sic] shomething [sic] wrong here?

****cf Tennyson, ‘Lady Clara Vere de Vere’:

‘Kind hearts are more than coronets,

And simple faith than Norman blood.’

[& the writer has in his possession a privately published volume clearly commissioned to show that in common with very many others, the wife of one of his great-great-grandfathers (a more-or-less self-made Victorian industrialist) could trace her ancestry back to a commander of Norman archers at the Battle of Hastings, and beyond....]

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