a very long hallway corridor to the office

 a very long hallway corridor to the office

fiction

edward w pritchard

Some time past back in ancient Florence, Italy, maybe Lorenzo had built, for one of his endless remodeling projects to pass the time, [and that's Ok], a very long raised hallway corridor lined with pictures, from his office to home, rather inconspicuously raised above the busy streets filled with the hoi polloi; the corridor built so he wouldn't have to walk among the common people. Back then no one needed snow tires to get to work, for when I visited Florence to see the art there was no snow in the Summer, and also no cars available in reality then in Lorenzo and Savaranola's time.

Remembering my trip to Florence, using time's imaginary arrow to travel backwards in my head, I decided after to reread parts of Stephen Hawkings " a brief History of time, chapter 9, 10th edition" the arrow of time". Previously on time travel as well I had read Robin Le Poidevin et al " the philosophy of time". I suppose I believe backward time travel to be for now in reality impossible but practically possible thinking backwards in the human memory concerning things past of strongly felt emotion, as also in elephants, dolphins and maybe apes.  

Yes, I don't do remodeling projects because of  practical considerations. However, I often recall in my memory, the excellent train service in Italy from town to town and village to village. Would that we had train travel accessible here to us the Hoi polloi so those we care for didn't have to drive in the snow home to work to raise funds to pay for remodeling projects. Remodeling projects being practical and reasonable if one is so inclined.  

ps- Hawking uses a lot of ! in his writing but it's forgivable all things being considered