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Background Music
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Ash Wednesday Feast
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In 1818 the Paschal Full Moon fell on Saturday, March 21st, making March 22nd the earliest ever Easter Sunday (by both the Western (Gregorian) and the Orthodox (Julian) calendar), a date which will not recur until 2285. So why does Tokarczuk pick March 1st for Ash Wednesday, which would place Easter on the impossibly early Read more
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It Seems a Pity
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Bloodletting
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On the 25th March, 18—, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg. On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name of Ivan Jakovlevitch. He had lost his family name, and on his sign-board, on which was depicted the head of a gentleman with one cheek soaped, the only inscription to Read more
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Roadblock Riddle
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Insidious and Cruel
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Contradictions
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The First British Pizza
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Animals Shaped Like People
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March 13. Directed by Mr Judson, the hotelkeeper, and bearing a verbal introduction from him, I was able to talk to Mrs Mary Blount, a woman of eighty who lives with her granddaughter and the granddaughter’s husband on a farm about twenty miles from Frenchman’s Landing. The husband warned me before I was taken in Read more