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Re-reading some of my work, I came across this quote from David Brett: ‘A modern culture (and I propose this as a general rule) is always Janus-faced, looking both backward and forward, never fully settled in the present’ (1996, 26) The current month of January is, of course, named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god associatedContinue reading “January: a modern month?”