A poet of great emotional power and resonance who, while documenting a vanishing England, always had one eye on eternity.
At the chronological level of Plotinus and probably also of the Antioch mosaic the meaning of aion was widely stabilised: in effect, by this term was meant, on the one hand, eternity as opposed to the durative aspects of temporality, and on the other, as perhaps was the case of the mosaic in question, eternity defined in the duration of time, past, present and future.
She leaves issues such as where the other great artists are buried (Raphael is not the only one spending eternity here) to the guides, who are genial, erudite, and conduct free tours.
A blink of an eye, an eternity, one year.
The proposal was unanimously tabled -- "in eternity," one official said.
"Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.
"WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY?" one of the photographed places of worship challenges ominously.
What they wanted: to stand guard outside the temple together for eternity, one as an oak and the other as a linden tree.
The relaxed, unselfconscious viewer I was that night was a complete change from my usual uptight theatregoing self, who inevitably spends a good chunk of his time fuming about the audience member who forgot to turn his phone off, or the one spending an eternity unwrapping a sweet, or the one loudly whispering a running commentary to her neighbour.
