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<!-- lj-cut text="Jarvis Cocker, on our need for heroes" -->
<p>From the <a href="http://quotationofthedaylist.blogspot.com/">
Quotation of the day mailing list</a>, 2012-10-16:</p><blockquote>
<p><i>"We elevate people to the status of heroes in order to let
ourselves off the hook: 'I'm just a mere mortal -- I could never
even dream of doing something like that.'"</i> -- Jarvis Cocker,
writing in The Guardian.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/10/john-lennon-letters-hunter-davies-review?INTCMP=SRCH"</a>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/10/john-lennon-letters-hunter-davies-review?INTCMP=SRCH</a>]</p>
</blockquote><p>submitted to the mailing list by Jean Rogers</p>
<p><small>Today is:<br />
Gregorian: 2014-01-05 (the twelfth day of Christmas)<br />
Julian: 2013-12-23<br />
Hebrew: 5774 Shevat 04<br />
Islamic: 1435 Rabi`al-Awwal 03<br />
Persian: 1392 Dey 15<br />
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.1.1.0<br />
Indian Civil Calendar: 1935 Pausa 15<br />
Anniversary of the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066,
President Nixon ordering the development of a Space Shuttle
program in 1972, and the discovery of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)">
Eris</a> in 2005<br />
The birthday of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco">Umberto
Eco</a> (1932),
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose">Charlie
Rose</a> (1942),
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Keaton">Diane
Keaton</a> (1946),
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson">
Marilyn Manson</a> (1969), and
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanan_McGuire">
Seanan McGuire</a> (1978).</small></p>
<p><small>[Note that today is the twelfth day <em>of</em>
Christmas -- the Feast of the Nativity being day one --
but "Twelfth Day" is also another name for the Feast of
the Epiphany, i.e. tomorrow, the twelfth day <em>after</em>
Christmas. Just because calendars aren't confusing enough
anyhow, I guess.]</small></p>