| Quote #10 Valentine: And everything is mixing the same way, all the time, irreversibly . . . [...] . . . till there's no time left. That's what time means. (2.7) |
So what is it that time means, again? At its most basic level, according to Valentine, it means you can't go back into history – unless, of course, you're writing or reading a play that does exactly that. How might reading or seeing Arcadia, or any other historical text, differ from actually taking a spin to the nineteenth century?