Home Fires questions

Jeff Wilson · 16 Jan 2012, 22:22 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:22:21 -0600
Subject: (urth) Home Fires questions
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On 1/16/2012 1:02 PM, Stephen Hoy wrote:
> David Stockhoff added a few comments recently about the use of "hundred
> day" in Home Fires, exploring the possibility that the calendar is
> altered in some way that may illuminate the background of the story.
> Like the dialects of certain characters, the colloquial use of "hundred
> day"adds a distinct flavor to the story, but I haven't found any
> indication the calendar has been changed. Home Fires seems to have a 24
> hr clock, a 7 day week, and 365+ day year. Still, I keep wondering
> whether we can eke out another layer of meaning.

The US media often makes a special issue of covering a new president's 
first 100 days in office. Maybe there's a media convergence on this 
period that catches on, the way the arbitrary red state / blue state 
designation did. This could suggest that the media-driven political 
fixation of US society is much, much stronger, or at least much more 
advanced.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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