Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words,

And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?

In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.