Story Excerpt Sunday: From Revise the World by Brenda Clough

Revise the World

by Brenda Clough

At Eton, British boys had learnt the classical Greek motto: man is the measure of all things. Not for the first time it occurred to Titus that Protagoras deserved a clout over the earhole. This creature could not be measured or even described in a man’s terms. It lay like a forest across the range of hills to the south, many-hued and textured and extending for miles. In fact it was possible the thing was the range – who knew how thick it was? The downland rippl...