There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
Rather, with Wood now able to draw on an extraordinary village archive held at Merton College, Oxford, there's a vivid sense of generations being cruelly wiped out, members of families whose descendants still live in the Leicestershire countryside.
This winter I invited the women who were in legacy facilitator training with me to do a short writing exercise, not for the purpose of discerning values, but to provide a sense of generations, an appreciation of life and our mortality, and to address two of our universal needs: wanting to be known and remembered.
Watching it, you can't help but get the sense of generations of families toiling in the fields, hoping the weather holds as the harvest approaches, perhaps unsure if fate will smile on them, faithful or not but happy to accept any possible advantage religion might provide.
The "we," it turns out, is the Who -- at least in the sense of "My Generation".
The sense of a generation moving up infuses Muldoon's 12th collection, which opens with a long poem dedicated to the memory of Seamus Heaney.
In contemporary post-Nkrumah Ghana, Hartman confronts her own sense of pure Generation X despondency: "I had come to Ghana too late and with too few talents.
This sense of another generation claiming Ayckbourn as their own is reinforced by stand-up comic Marc Wootton as Neville's underling Eddie, who plays the best drunk scene since Design For Living at the Old Vic earlier this year, but on his own, lumpenly out for the count while his pregnant wife Pattie (Katherine Parkinson) lifts him around the set, causing only more damage.
Internalists contend that we can make sense of the generation of new intentions through reasoning only if we assume that such reasoning is conditioned by motivational resources that are already to hand.
