‘And lo, there were shepherds in the fields, watching over their flocks by night…’
Reading recently that it was the 25th anniversary of the invention of the world wide web, I reflected (yet again) on the difficulty of creating in any of our minds that sense of the world as experienced by the Greeks and Romans.
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