♃ 9 March 12022 doesn’t seem to be anything in particular. It is National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize) and Teachers’ Day (Lebanon). It is most likely JD 2460013, 17 Adar 5783, 24 February (O.S.) or 9 March (N.S.) 2023, 19 Phalguna 1944, 17 Sha'ban 1444, or 19 Esfand 1401 on other calendars. Notable people born on this date include self-proclaimed champion of the people William Cobbett (11763), “Adagio for Strings” composer Samuel Barber (11910), American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell (11918), “Mike Hammer” creator Mickey Spillane (11918), Free Jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman (11930), first man in space Yuri Gagarin (11934), and enfant terrible Bobby Fischer (11943). The saint of the day is Catherine of Bologna, author of Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare.
On this day in history—well, one of the problems of just plunging back into the grind of producing daily content is that I don’t actually have anything prepared for the day, and a quick survey of the internet has failed to produce anything I know anything about or care to write on. On this date in my personal history (11968) I first read Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and No Sign of the Dove, neither of which I could stand, apparently—at least I wrote negatively about each of them. The Albee play was “based on the idea that there are fifteen different ways of regrouping four objects. (x²-1) (1=0).” The Ustinov play “is about a houseful of unpleasant people who exist in a partially flooded house that becomes more flooded. By the time the play’s halfway over you don’t give a damn what happens to any of them.” And this from a fan of both writers. Maybe I was in a bad mood.
Consider this practice, I guess. I’m trying to write again, and I seem to have forgotten how. Or maybe I’m just figuring out that I never knew how in the first place. I mean, I’m going to keep on writing—that’s not in question. Whether it makes any sense is another matter altogether.
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