educated: These are always so weird to me.
Like, OMG MATH!!

wtf.

It's because we tend to mentally flatten time into distinct periods where everything contained therein might as well of happened all at the same time.  When these clash, either between them or internally, it can do some interesting mental things.

LrdPhoenix: educated: These are always so weird to me.
Like, OMG MATH!!

wtf.

It's because we tend to mentally flatten time into distinct periods where everything contained therein might as well of happened all at the same time.  When these clash, either between them or internally, it can do some interesting mental things.

A good example of an internal clash is the Cleopatra one from up there, because we flatten the ancient period to contain everything pretty much from the foundations of society to the fall of Rome.  It temporarily expands just how much time we've compressed in our heads.  Or that T Rex (84-65 million years ago) is closer to us in time than it is to Stegosaurus(155-150 million years ago), because we flatten the nearly 200 million year long Dinosaur era to all be at the same time.

A good example of a intra period clash would be that Harriet Tubman was alive when Thomas Jefferson died and died after Woodrow Wilson became President, because it bridges the era of powdered wigs with the modern era where there's cars and radio and shiat, showing just how short of a span of time existed between these two very distinct and mentally separate eras.

LrdPhoenix: A good example of a intra inter period clash

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