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This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale. A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from? That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, whi…
Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from? That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, whi…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from? That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, whi…
Also: A man openly celebrating International Women's Day in 1981, while not impossible, is certainly unlikely. Similarly, "Nice Day With Liz" on a Sunday, seems like mentioning a platonic event. A man opening having female friends and meeting them 1-to-1 on a Sunday in 1981? Again, not impossible, but another point suggesting a female author.
They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.
There should be a word for these back-formations that specifically come from cutting this prefix looking thing off the front of a word to invert their meaning. Disgruntled -> gruntled Unhinged -> hinged
This appears to be the original source - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled...
This appears to be the original source - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from? That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, whi…
Where'd you see the entry for Samhain? I found the two for Beltane and the quarters but not that.
> First class postage increased to 18¢ Wish we had that now!