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This is by contrast with externally-ruined holidays — unseasonably early blizzards, unseasonably late hailstorms, COVID-19, supervolcano eruptions, asteroid extinction events, and the like. | This is by contrast with externally-ruined holidays — unseasonably early blizzards, unseasonably late hailstorms, COVID-19, supervolcano eruptions, asteroid extinction events, and the like. | ||
== Poem == | == Poem == | ||
Revision as of 17:48, 21 November 2020
A self-ruinous holiday is any holiday which tendency to destroy itself, by its social dynamic.
This is by contrast with externally-ruined holidays — unseasonably early blizzards, unseasonably late hailstorms, COVID-19, supervolcano eruptions, asteroid extinction events, and the like.
Poem
He is a Bootlick and a Blackguard
as revealed by
the shoe polish lines
running down his face.
History
Jones wrote the poem on the evening of Saturday, 21 November 2020.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Apoptosis Takes a Holiday - remake of the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday.
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
Nonfiction cross-reference
- A lesser holiday tradition (nonfiction) - the Christmas Crab!
- It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain (nonfiction)
- Saturnalia (nonfiction)