pynchon-l-digest V1 #674

[Greg Montalbano]

Erik Burns, on the 11 days:

>This confusion arose because people found it easier to think in the
>"nominal" terms they were used to - in which one day of the month follows
>another in numerical order - rather than recognizing the underlying reality
>of what "days" measure, namely the passage of time."
>
>To react like this may seem ridiculous with hindsight..."

Actually, you can view similar "ridiculous" behavior even today, in the
continuing brouhaha over Daylight Savings Time ("It ain't natural", "The
cows don't like it").