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“It was a strange year that year and it is a strange year this year. The blue of the sky looks rather black to the eye.”

This is a Gertrude Stein quote I keep in mind, though off-hand I can’t say from where I got it. Fourteen years ago, I used it in an old blog post, which itself was leaping backward another decade, to the year 2001. As I accumulate lay…