{"id":495,"date":"2007-02-27T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/02\/27\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-5\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:25:06","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/02\/27\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, my daughter took part in what started out as an entirely unremarkable dance recital. She and maybe eight other 6-year-olds were bopping around on stage along with some familiar holiday tune. “Let It Snow”? “Jingle Bells”?
\nMidway through, the CD starts to skip. And it’s awful. One of those 15 second stretches of time that feels like the taste of melting tar. It’s not right. It’s not getting better. Somebody take this melting tar out of our mouths!
\nThen the music stops altogether and in the silence something lovely happens. The dancers just keep dancing. In silence. They finish the song with exceptional grace. And it was probably the best dancing I’ve ever seen.
\nThis week reminded me a little of that. Not that we’re all a bunch of dancing 6-year-olds. Just that there was the lurch of the site. And then the silence. The silence. And then out of that silence, a graceful swirl of comments that began to spin out across the Week 4 stage almost as soon as the generators kicked back in. Lovely.
\nWhich is all my longwinded way of saying, thanks to you all for bearing with this past week’s headaches. It’s fun to be back on the ‘march and great to see that, if need be, we can make do without a trail for a few days.
\nOf course, some of us faired better than others. Without the spur of daily posts, I my ownself fell about 20 pages shy of the target. But I’ve got some quality airport time coming up, and I’m leaving the old cylomite at home. So I’m hopeful I’ll be caught back up by next week. Speaking of which…
\nTuesday 3\/6:<\/b> We have nothing to fear but page 280 itself, where the word on the street is, “we’d better get in some drinking…”
\n(in other words: please use this thread to comment on anything up to page 280. Try to finish reading that part of the book and to comment on it here by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nOh, and don’t forget to check out Steve Evans rockin’ readin’ notes for last week right here<\/b><\/a>.
\nPugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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