The past served as a tool for rejecting the present as much as to feed nostalgia.
Quite how much this took him by surprise is hard to tell now but, on the face of it, it should not have done.
The wood serves only as a makeshift refuge, somewhere where they are not so much free as at bay.
On the other hand, the notion of an 'organic community', even though based on history, is itself much closer to pastoral feeling.
At first sight, the suggestion seems not so much a paradox as a bad joke.
Be it said in favour of what follows that it admits as much.
We have seen much by this time of where the tension can arise.
Financial statements today focus on reliability much more than on relevance.