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Since the monastic era in the West, this organisation by hours has become so ubiquitous that it has come almost to seem uncaused, a fact of nature. Now, Kevin Jackson restores its strangeness and richness. From the structure of the working day to the imposition of curfews, from the scheduling of public events to the content of etiquette, in a manner no less remarkable for being rarely remarked, the hours give a meaning to our days. Here then are the hours, from dawn to Eliot's 'uncertain hour before dawn' by way of elevenses and the lunch hour, the hours for siesta and for tiffin, vespers and the witching hour.

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'Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity' Albert Einstein

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Kevin Jackson is a writer, broadcaster and film-maker. His work for the BBC includes films on Anthony Burgess, George Eliot and William Morris for television and documentaries on William Blake and John Ruskin for radio. A former Associate Arts Editor of the Independent, for which he continues to write, he has contributed to the Sunday Times, Sight and Sound and the New Yorker. He lives in London.

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