Sheila’s Reviews > Toward the End of Time > Status Update

"...The Mayans had calendars more accurate in arranging leap years than our own. Dwellers in the Andaman Islands keep a calendar based the odors of seasonal plants as they bloom and die..."

It must have something to do with the constant descriptions of flowers throughout the book.

"...The Mayans had calendars more accurate in arranging leap years than our own. Dwellers in the Andaman Islands keep a calendar based the odors of seasonal plants as they bloom and die..."

It's a little disappointing to not have a status bar anymore to give me a visual on how far I've come. I'd kind of gotten used to it.

"What is wrong with me, that I want to leave a trace, by scribbling these disjunct and jumpy notes concerning my idle existence? Spoiling paper - no worse and no better than scribbling on a bridge pad."