Repetition and its importance, physically, mentally. From birth onward. The importance of the calendar in human activities makes it impossible not to reconsider repetition. But I’ve returned to it, in this case, with thoughts about the celebration of world days, centennials, and the like. Specifically, the literary side of 2022 as the centenary of book publications, certainly a high point of Anglophone Modernism. Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, in reverse alphabetical order, published Jacob’s Room, Ulysses, The Waste Land in 1922, three years after the peace accord to the First World War was signed. But these are only three of the events that happened 100 years ago. And, as indicated, I’ve mentioned only a specific temporal and linguistic category. Specific dates: JR: 26 October 1922. TWL: October 1922. U: 2 February 1922 (previously serialized in The Little Review, March 1918-December 1920.
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