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And every year gets worse, because the scab on the heart sloughs away and the time-wound becomes more tender, more inflamed. Why let myself be dogged by anniversaries and portents? Why keep a calendar no one keeps, as dead as ab urbe condita, the katun wheel?
—Ronald Wright
Thursday, July 04, 2019

On tradition

Tradition means only that people have been doing something the same way for a while. It doesn't imply that that way is a better way, much less the better way.

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