January. The beginning of the New Year! In November 2025, we celebrated Thanksgiving and then, in December, the winter solstice. We celebrated Christmas, and then we celebrated New Year’s Eve, 2026.
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The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the unholy courts of the Renaissance, then returned to the page as Hamlet’s Yorick. Later, in the age of reason and democracy ...