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The Duel and Other Stories

Anton Chekhov

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Kwame Anthony Appiah loved it
It's just so marvellous, the description of these professional-class Russians, far, far away from Moscow in the provinces, and their preoccupation with status and all that, and these two guys in a completely pointless duel.

on fivebooks.com · 21 Nov 2012

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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.