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XeniaAnn
I think the author is confused, haha. Julian Calendar is alwayssss behind the Gregorian.
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Salman Rushdie
“In all his writing he had tried to reconcile the words “reason,” “logic” and “science” with the words “God,” “faith” and “Qur’an,” and he had not succeeded, even though he used with great subtlety the argument from kindness, demonstrating by Qur’anic quotation that God must exist because of the garden of earthly delights he had provided for mankind, and do we not send down from the clouds pressing forth rain, water pouring down in abundance, that you may thereby produce corn, and herbs, and gardens planted thick with trees? He was a keen amateur gardener and the argument from kindness seemed to him to prove both God’s existence and his essentially kindly, liberal nature, but the proponents of a harsher God had beaten him. Now”
Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Dan Jurgens
“It did not
kill me and
it did not
make me stronger.

It simply was
and always will
be scorched upon
my heart.”
d.j.

Katherine Neville
“call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound,” Bach replied. “‘In the Beginning was the Word,’ you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.”
Katherine Neville, The Eight

Katherine Neville
“By the European Julian calendar it was already November 4, exactly one year and seven months from the date—dare she think of it—when she’d determined to withdraw the Montglane Service from its hiding place of a thousand years. But here in Russia, by the Gregorian calendar, it was only October 23.”
Katherine Neville, The Eight

China Miéville
“You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja.”
China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

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