M&D - chapter 19-21 - The Calendar

[Johnny Marr]

Apparently the British tax year begins in line with the old calendar, as a
left over tradition.

On Monday, March 30, 2015, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> I always wondered why we didn’t just stick to the moon. Probably since
> moon (måne) is the same as month (måne) in Norwegian.
>
> We should have a quick check in with Robert Graves and 'The White Goddess'
> at this point. He talks about The Tree Alphabet (Beth-Luis-Nion), a relic
> of Druidism orally transmitted down the centuries. Graves’ research found
> that the consonants of this alphabet form a calendar of seasonal
> tree-magic, and that all the trees figure prominently in European folklore!
> (p. 165)
>
> The lunar month has 28 days. There are 13 such months in a solar year,
> with one day left over… The Druidic year was reckoned by lunar months. «For
> the first-century B.C ‘Coligny Calendar’ which is one of lunations (though
> no longer regarded as Druidic) is engraved in Roman letters on a brass
> tablet and *is now though to be part of the Romanizing of native religion
> attempted under the early Empire.»* (p.166)
>
> My underlining.
>
>
> 30. mar. 2015 kl. 11.40 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>>:
>
> Those lost eleven days have always bemused me in my readings. I want to
> find something metaphysical since Time matters in all his work....yet,
> haven't.
>
> I keep thinking very simplistically, very prosaically, probably stupidly
> about that feeling of " where does the time go" we've all had......or the
> song about....
> As I said, not quite right....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eromberg at mac.com');>> wrote:
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> ON THE CALENDAR
>
> David Cowart (in TP&the dark passages of history) reckons the the
> attention to calendar reform serves a number of thematic strands, like the
> dread of Jesuit machinations, and that TP contrives to make the
> time-changing paranoia suggest new variations on a colonialist theme, like
> when Mason «concocts fantasies worthy of Cyrano de Bergerac» later on in
> the book «with which to regale those who persist in badgering him about the
> supposedly lost days» (p. 146) The first one badgering him, as we learn
> here, being his father. And this is also his first "concocted fantasy" (?)
> …as he produces his pipe and pours himself some wine...-
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