Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

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Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

"Nevermind the Russelian Paradox of a single bag attempting to bag itself"

2024

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A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning ‘day of Tiw’ (the Norse god of law)). More info here: https://en.tuespedia.org/wiki/Tuesday

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William Woodward

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Simon Byrne

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