{"id":46282,"date":"2013-02-05T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=46282"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:43:49","slug":"the-daughter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/the-daughter-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daughter of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/i-int-richard-0204-130204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46283\" alt=\"The skeleton of Richard III, which was discovered at the Grey Friars excavation site in Leicester, central England, is seen in this photograph provided by the University of Leicester and received in London\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/i-int-richard-0204-130204.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/i-int-richard-0204-130204.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/i-int-richard-0204-130204-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn&#8217;t it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/13\/130204-king-richard-iii-skeleton-bones-science-archeology-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard III\u2019s bones<\/a>&mdash;and what some are calling the<a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/02\/04\/richard-iiis-bones-should-one-of-historys-losers-be-redeemed\/\" target=\"_blank\"> monarch\u2019s redemption<\/a>&mdash;we imagine that somewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephinetey.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Tey<\/a> is smiling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don&#8217;t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. 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