"Philip Jose Farmer - Dayworld" - читать интересную книгу автора (Farmer Phillip Jose)

For an explanation of the horizontal and vertical calendars, refer to the illustration on
the next page.
The calendar is "vertical," not our present-day "horizontal" calendar. Our calendars
present the seven days of the week as if we moved through time horizontally. Sunday precedes
Monday, and Monday precedes Tuesday, and by the time we have reached next Sunday, we have stepped
off onto another horizontal chronological path.
The New Era or "stoner" society uses a "vertical" calendar.
Reason: One-seventh of the world's population lives on only one day of the week. To put it another
way, six-sevenths of the world's population is in a "stoned" or "suspended-animation" state for
six days of each week. Sunday's people live on Sunday only; Monday's, on Monday, and so forth.
At the end of one passage of Earth around the sun, a Sunday citizen has lived only fifty-
two days. If born in, say, N.E. 100, that person has been on Earth two hundred years by N.E. 300.
But that person is not quite twenty-nine years old in physiological development. If that person
has been on Earth for six hundred years, he or she is not quite eighty-six years old in terms of


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aging.
The stoner culture greatly reduces the demand for food and goods, amount of pollution, and
living space required. If the global population is, say, ten billion, then, on each day, only a
little over one billion, four hundred and twenty-eight million, five hundred thousand people are
eating food, drinking, using space, and adding trash, junk, and waste matter for disposal.
The New Era government decreed a new calendar for two reasons. One, it wanted to make a
clean break with the past. Two, it made sure that each day's population would not be cheated out
of its full quota of days per year because of the different days of the months as set by the
Gregorian calendar. The summer solstice, which occurs on or near June 21, arbitrarily
NEW ERA (VERTICAL) CALENDAR
N.E. 1330 (OLD STYLE A.D. 3414)

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