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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2010-07-05 01:36 pm

Thog's Calendrical Masterclass


The storms hit New Orleans on August 29, and this bill was presented for consideration to the house in what would end up being very close to its final form just over three weeks later, on September 26.

----Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement (2008), p34


[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2010-07-05 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Very long, these American weeks.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2010-07-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)

It's all the three-day weekends as does it . . .

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2010-07-06 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's Robert Graves, reaching out beyond death and sneakily replacing the heptad with the ennead.