The passage of time

31) Safe in Rome I feel a need to rest, taking shelter in the catacoumbs beneath the city I sleep for 100 years. I awake to find much changed, Annia has left me to persue her own goals and the Cristian church has truly taken hold.
39) The passage of ages takes it's toll, I can no longer make out some of the names in my journal and I realise I no longer even remember them, not even my farthers name.
42) Matches! infernal devices from the oriant. The first time I saw one I nearly died and even now I cannot stand to be around there use. I was visiting Chiaro Lignago a man influentail in the cities merchent guilds. When he struck a match to relight the candle that had gone out, he thought nothing of it but the shear surprise and sudden fire, blinding to my heightened senses, caused me to hurl myself from the window of the room in panic. I impailed myself upon the fence post outside and it is only by luck that I didn't peirce my heart.