Let us turn to another aspect of Ovid's narration that demands the audience's active participation and that leads to a complexer and richer understanding of discourse and time.

1978, Since they acted as ‘the eyes and ears of the Sultan, no laxity was permitted to them and a slight delay or misconstruation of information was treated as a contempt of Royalty and meted with death’ - Meera Singh, Medieval History of India, Vikas Publishing House.

Seth: I don’t understand you alloromantics. Love letters, long walks in the park, listening to each other’s heartbeats? No thank you. I am only allosexual.

(insert rant about how data protection is srs bsns and how Europe is trying to do the right thing and how the US is doing the wrong thing.)