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01 January 2018

Celebrating the mortal new year

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bless and fire off pistols. 
Thomas Mann, German Novelist, in the The Magic Mountain (1924)

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