Submission volume dropped very slightly yesterday (\"only\" 9 subs, which would normally be high but in this case was the lowest-volume day all week), bringing us to a grand total for the week of 101 submissions. Hey, wasn't that a Dodie Smith novel, later turned into two popular Disney movies? About this woman who wants to make a coat out of soft warm newly-fledged manuscripts—okay, never mind.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Arthur C. (not to be confused with Arthur E. or Arthur H.) provides a pointer to info about the lulls in conversation at twenty after the hour<\/a> thing. I've been hearing about it since high school, in various forms (\"Everyone stopped talking; it must be 20 after\"; \"There's a pause in group conversations every 20 minutes\"; \"There's a pause in group conversations every 7 minutes\"; \"When everyone stops talking at once, it must be because they're thinking about Abraham Lincoln\"), but don't recall seeing this coherent an explanation before: turns out there's a folk belief that Lincoln died at 8:20, and ever since then people have suddenly fallen silent at 20 minutes after the hour.<\/p>\n