... Rawtenstall Lancashire Staplehurst Kent luxury non-necessities books reading pictures time clocks mirrors music gold ‘Non-essential’ goods, or ‘luxury’ goods as they were often labelled by contemporaries, are slippery terms. At one extreme, Bernard Mandeville broadly defined ‘luxury’ to include...

...The multiple narratives are duplicates of each other that proceed in parallel and are simultaneous in time. There is no linear thread, but rather circularities and reversals that mirror each other. multiple circularity mirrors Bertolucci’s Strategia del ragno (1970) is based...