Yes! I’m back in the proverbial saddle. As in, I sent My One True Love off to the editor, and now I’m taking up the revision reins on a completed novel I wrote some time back. I’m keeping it under wraps for now, but today’s research foray offers a hint in the following, from Charles Pierce’s 1863 edition of: The Household Manager

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Deborah
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
Marcel Proust