David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


11 November 2011

aka TODAY

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Those of us who subscribe to the Gregorian calendar view are observing the present date's notable numerical time sequence :
MMXI.XI.XI.XI.XI.XI
2011.11.11.11.11.11
Year/Month/Day/Hour/Minute/Second
aka TODAY



Those of us who subscribe to other calendars may be regarding TODAY as belonging within one of the following YEARS :
Ab urbe condita 2764
Armenian calendar 1460 / ԹՎ ՌՆԿ
Assyrian calendar 6761
Bahá'í calendar 167 – 168
Bengali calendar 1418
Berber calendar 2961
British Regnal year 59 Eliz. 2–60 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2555
Burmese calendar 1373
Byzantine calendar 7519 – 7520
Chinese calendar 庚寅年十一月廿七日
(4647/4707-11-27)
— to —
辛卯年十二月初七日
(4648/4708-12-7)
Coptic calendar 1727 – 1728
Ethiopian calendar 2003 – 2004
Hebrew calendar 5771 – 5772
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat 2067 – 2068
- Shaka Samvat 1933 – 1934
- Kali Yuga 5112 – 5113
Holocene calendar 12011
Iranian calendar 1389 – 1390
Islamic calendar 1432 – 1433
Japanese calendar Heisei 23
(平成23年)
Korean calendar 4344
Minguo calendar ROC 100
民國100年
Thai solar calendar 2554
Unix time 1293840000 – 1325375999

For those of us in Commonwealth countries
TODAY
11th month, 11th day, 11th hour
is Remembrance Day (aka Poppy Day, Armistice Day)
LEST WE FORGET

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