I do like this way of thinking about history (and Horizontal History). I think you're right that we don't experience time in a linear fashion as we don't naturally experience numbers in a linear fashion: children think of numbers logarithmically (sort of) until they are taught the number line, and even as adults we start to get a bit non-linear about billions, trillions and other non-countables.
I'm also interested in History in the Present Tense, what would it have been like to live through it, day by day, as we do live through our current times. Take out time dilation, the benefit of hindsight, and especially of luck and stuff just happening, and what would it have been like after the Great Stink unlocked the money and they started digging up all the roads again, they've only just built a railway, Chelsea Bridge delayed *again* and anyway, you don't believe all that "it's shit in the water" crap do you?
I do like this way of thinking about history (and Horizontal History). I think you're right that we don't experience time in a linear fashion as we don't naturally experience numbers in a linear fashion: children think of numbers logarithmically (sort of) until they are taught the number line, and even as adults we start to get a bit non-linear about billions, trillions and other non-countables.
I'm also interested in History in the Present Tense, what would it have been like to live through it, day by day, as we do live through our current times. Take out time dilation, the benefit of hindsight, and especially of luck and stuff just happening, and what would it have been like after the Great Stink unlocked the money and they started digging up all the roads again, they've only just built a railway, Chelsea Bridge delayed *again* and anyway, you don't believe all that "it's shit in the water" crap do you?