“That night, I stayed at the Hotel Calendal in the Roman city of Arles, a 90-minute drive from Marseille airport.”

“Although other ancient Mesoamerican societies, even in the Preclassic period, also possessed calendars, only the Maya calendar can be translated directly into today's calendrical system.”

“There are calendarial tables for three lunar cycles, beginning 146 3, 1482 and 1501, on fol.”

“But beyond this surface and calendric artificiality, there was something more fundamentally false about the Millennium as a historical event.”

“This is due to a calendric technicality whereby Rosh Hashana, the first day of Tishrei, never occurs on a Wednesday.”

“The correct answer, I noted to her, to the calendric question, What is today?”