Dear Readers,
To you, the weekend you are now experiencing must seem very normal. Some of you, I'm sure, are forced to work on your weekends, but this is likely a special part of your job, and you are likely to resent it, as well.
It might seem strange--not unbelievable, but strange--to think of the weekend as an invented concept, but it must be. There is no necessary reason that the week should be seven days, or nine, or eleven, and so the week length is contingent on some other parameter. By extension, the weekend also varies in a contingent fashion. In some time streams and eras, it does not exist at all.
Something of a scary thought, really. I was always rather fond of a late Sunday brunch.
Always,
Dr. John Skylar
Chairman
Department of Anachronism
University of Constantinople
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