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23rd April 1661 - King Charles II coronation
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My previous update was a typo - should have been 36%, not 46%! But I am really at 50% now :)

April 1661

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February 1660-61

As with all short story collections, some are better than others. My favorites so far are the ones in which Thurber is reminiscing or otherwise featured.

January 1660-61

I've finally got a whole year done! This diary is interesting and dull in turns - often the best parts are the editor's explanations which will sometimes prompt me to reread a section.

3rd part of my rant:
Now, someone could die of carbon dioxide gas by suffocation as the gas displaces the air in an enclosed space but not nearly as readily as by carbon monoxide. This erroneous science on Dr. Fell's part might ruin the whole book for me...

Continuing my rant:
And when it sublimes, it doesn't release "one of the deadliest and quick-acting gases there is" (which would be fluorine gas). It releases carbon dioxide, which in a very moist atmosphere will react with the water to form small amounts of carbonic acid, a weak acid that is fairly harmless.

I interrupt my reading to mark my extreme annoyance at Carr's (to me inexcusable) errors in scientific facts here!!! Dry ice is NOT "nothing more or less liquefied gas", it is a SOLID! And it doesn't melt, that's why it is called DRY ice - it sublimes or you could say (less accurately) evaporates.

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