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UNION, TRAVAIL, JUSTICE



What’s this?

Surely you know by now.

A Timeline in a Day? You never finished the other one of those you started.

I’ll finish it someday.

Keep telling yourself that.

I… all right, it was too ambitious. And I did finish Nok Steel.

Hope springs eternal. But don’t you have something else you should be working on?

Everyone needs a break sometimes, and besides, I thought I’d give Tom’s new format a try.

AH.com, where magazine journalism goes to die?

Cynic.

Someone needs to counterbalance you. What’s this all about, anyway – one of the lesser-known provinces of the Central African Republic? Or did you do the obvious thing and pick one of the better-known provinces?

It’s about France.

Hence the very Gallic-looking mask at the top of the page?

It’s about France.

I sense you’re giving yourself some wiggle room.

Sense what you want. The first three scenes will take place in Paris.

I still think you’re not telling us everything.

Of course not, that would spoil the ending. Would it help if I said that the POD was in 1957, and that it involved someone with an apostrophe in his name?

No, not really.

OK. In that case, take a look at the motto above that Gallic-looking mask.

Looking.

It’s the theme of the timeline. But it’s also something else.

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