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The Honest Rainmaker

A J Liebling

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

Andrew Gelman liked it
That's kind of the point – it's this lovable rogue, this guy who was never as successful as all that, but he would somehow just manage to stay afloat. To me it felt very statistical, the whole book.

on fivebooks.com · 3 Jan 2011

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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.