Horizontal Sundial

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    In bourgeois society, the French and the industrial revolution transformed the authorization of political space. The political revolution put an end to the formalized hierarchy of the ancien regimé.... Concurrently, the industrial revolution subverted the social hierarchy upon which the old political space was based. It transformed the experience of society from one of vertical hierarchy to one of horizontal class stratification.
    Donald M. Lowe, U.S. historian, educator. History of Bourgeois Perception, ch. 4, University of Chicago Press (1982)

    Old Day the gardener seemed
    Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
    by the sundial and freshly-dug
    grave in my book of parables.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)