the eleven days

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The real issue is whether your landlord would expect the full rent on April 1st.

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
>Sent: Mar 21, 2006 6:11 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Cc: david.casseres at gmail.com
>Subject: Re: the eleven days
>
>David,
>
>If yesterday was March 20th and today March 31st, would you expect to get
>paid for the eleven days that didn't exist?  Hourly workers were still
>paid for every hour they worked.
>
>Toby
> 
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:12:22 -0800 "David Casseres"
><david.casseres at gmail.com> writes:
>> Working men did in fact lose 11 days' wages, I think.  The modern
>> American counterpart of this event is the twice-yearly twitch 
>> between
>> Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time.  Most Americans are now 
>> used
>> to this, and snicker at the few who still complain about it.  But
>> rural people do find themselves sending their kids off to school in
>> the dark, among other real inconveniences, for reasons that go 
>> against
>> intuition.