Daily Archives: October 31, 2009

Did They Have Birds in the Fourth Century?

“How could you write about anything without wondering if it was true? I mean, you’d be describing a bird in a garden and suddenly there would be that awful question in your mind, did they have birds in the fourth century?” (Christopher Isherwood to Gore Vidal, Harpers, 1965)
One of the things my mother never understood [...]