having put my hand to the plough I invariably look back.Įdward Burne-Jones on the Kelmscott Chaucer footnote 2
I have done all I can to impede progress. I have omitted nothing I could think of to obstruct the onward march of the world. I hope sincerely it will be all the age does not want. They were used less often to indicate this or that day than they were said all together in a string, one after another their very sound was grotesque and they were like a reflection of the futility of trying to make anything clear out of the cloudiness of crai.Ĭarlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli footnote 1 But these precise terms had an undertone of irony.
The day after tomorrow was prescrai and the day after that pescrille then came pescruflo, maruflo, maruflone the seventh day was maruflicchio. How deceiving are the contradictions of language! In this land without time the dialect was richer in words with which to measure time than any other language beyond the motionless and everlasting crai every day in the future had a name of its own.