It's almost bedtime. Listening to some extremely chilled Miles Davis on headphones (thanks, Derek). Another friend of mine (Tony) told me a story that he heard some time ago about some people excavating the remains of an old Roman road somewhere in the north of England and, while one of them was alone at the underground site he was suddenly able to hear a minor key drone. Thinking that some of his colleagues were listening to a tape or the radio in another part of the dig, he was astonished to see the hoof & foreleg of a horse step through the stone and, cowering in fear, he watched the rest of the horse come into view.
He was able to see an extremely weary rider slouched in the saddle, dressed in early Roman attire; followed by several other figures on foot. After a few minutes they had all disappeared into the far wall.
The experience so rattled the witness that he said nothing about it until eventually pressed into doing so by friends a few weeks later who wanted to know what was wrong.
Describing the clothing & the weaponry that the figures had been carrying they were able to ascertain that the vision had emanated from sometime in the 3rd or 4th century when the Romans still ruled in England.
What struck me about this was the sound of the minor drone that seemed to herald the vision. Being something of a musician myself, I am always transported somehow into the distant past when I hear a song in a minor key; and a minor key drone really seems to contain an air of mystery & magic.
Could this be an element of time travel?
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