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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell · 2010

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

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

Gwern loved it
It was surprisingly unliterary and unpostmodern for Mitchell, but in exchange, he nailed the historical details and gave us an adventure which subverted many of the usual tropes

on gwern.net · 13 Oct 2022

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Mind candy (gourmet). The first part is the beginning of a nicely-written historical novel. Then it gets really remarkably Gothic, with no warning whatsoever.

on bactra.org · 30 Sep 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.