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Happenstance

Carol Shields

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Greg Mankiw loved it
Here are a few of my favorites, which are good reading even for the econ-averse: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon "The Mind-Body Problem" by Rebecca Goldstein "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Earle Stegner "Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition" by Carol Shields

on gregmankiw.blogspot.com · 14 Dec 2006 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.