Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Hitler’s Last Day, 7 May 2015
“... 1945 – by 4 p.m. the Führer will be dead.’ ‘Tragedy endeavours
, as far as possible,’ Aristotle wrote in the Poetics, ‘to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun.’ Fielding in Tom Jones argued that writers weren’t ‘obliged to keep even pace with time’, but would do well to steer clear of ‘monkish dullness’ and focus on ... ”