DOORS: Latin, the calendar of Graves
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jan 2003
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Michael Andre-Driussi — 22 Jan 2003, 02:04

> About Malicapata, David Duffy wrote:
> Of course, he could have just meant a headache ;) or depression.

Ah yes: "Post coitum omne animal triste."

Tami Whitehead pointed out the Gravesean 13-month lunar calendar in THE
WHITE GODDESS.  Yes, precisely: the thing is there, already made, with
names (based on trees like "Wild Apple") and dates and spine-tingling
festivals.  Part and parcel of the big Graves "White Goddess" package.  And
I do not detect any details pointing towards such a system in TAD.

=mantis=

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Roy C. Lackey — 22 Jan 2003, 07:16
  follows, by subject match Michael Andre-Driussi

> mantis wrote:
> Tami Whitehead pointed out the Gravesean 13-month lunar calendar in THE
> WHITE GODDESS.  Yes, precisely: the thing is there, already made, with
> names (based on trees like "Wild Apple") and dates and spine-tingling
> festivals.  Part and parcel of the big Graves "White Goddess" package.  And
> I do not detect any details pointing towards such a system in TAD.

Probably because it isn't there. Specific Otherworld dates (including month
name, 294, and number, 128,130) are given several times in the book. The
calendar in the Otherworld is the same as ours.

-Roy

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