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| 1 | January 24  | No Year | Events |
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January 24
The cruise ship Callas, carrying Richard Pine and the 2 kilos of heroin he smuggled out of Saigon, sinks.
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| 2 | January 25 | No Year | Events |
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January 25
Date of memorial service for Russell Bowie, who died when he and Stewie McClelland took Stewie's Bombardier Skiddoo out on the Reach when it froze for the first time since 1938. The skidoo went into the Reach. Stewie managed to crawl out, losing one foot to frostbite. The Reach took Russell away.
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| 3 | January 26  | No Year | Events |
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January 26
It has been two days since the cruise ship Callas sank and Richard Pine washed up alone on an island with 2 kilos of heroin.
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| 4 | January 27 | No Year | Events |
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January 27
After his lifeboat drifts away, Richard Pine conducts inventory - four gallons of water, a sewing kit, a first-aid kit, a lifeboat inspection log, a pencil, two knives, one combination fork and spoon, matches and 2 kilos of pure heroin, street value $350,000.
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| 5 | January 28 | No Year | Events |
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January 28
Richard Pine manages to kill a gull with a rock, and then he eats it.
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| 6 | January 29 | No Year | Events |
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January 29
Richard Pine tries unsuccessfully to kill another gull.
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| 7 | January 30 | No Year | Events |
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January 30
Richard Pine tries unsuccessfully to catch fish.
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| 8 | January 31 | No Year | Events |
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January 31
Richard Pine manages to kill and eat another gull.
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| 9 | February 1 | No Year | Events |
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February 1
Richard Pine trips in a hole while attempting to wave down a plane, fracturing his ankle.
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| 10 | February 2 | No Year | Events |
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February 2
After building a HELP sign on the beach with rocks, Richard Pine begins to consider amputating his fractured foot, which is not healing well.
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| 11 | February 3 | No Year | Events |
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February 3
Richard Pine's fractured foot gets worse, he gets closer to attempting amputation.
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| 12 | February 4 | No Year | Events |
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February 4
Richard Pine hasn't eaten in four days. He snorts heroin and amputates his fractured foot. Then he eats it.
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| 13 | February 5 | No Year | Events |
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February 5
Richard Pine recounts in his diary how he amputated his foot and ate it the day before.
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| 14 | February 7 | No Year | Events |
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February 7
Richard Pine, stoned on heroin since he amputated his fractured foot and ate it, begins to consider that another operation may be necessary.
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| 15 | February 8 | No Year | Events |
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February 8
Richard Pine stalks a plump gull, even manages to hit it with a rock, but loses it after chasing it into the water.
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| 16 | February 9 | No Year | Events |
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February 9
Richard Pine amputates his left foot, and then he eats it, telling himself it's cold roast beef.
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| 17 | February 9 | No Year | Events |
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February 9
Narrator receives a letter from the dean of Arts and Sciences saying he was flunking two or three courses in his major field.
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| 18 | February 11 | No Year | Events |
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February 11
Richard Pine eats a spider.
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| 19 | February 12 | No Year | Events |
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February 12
Richard Pine eats kelp and seaweed from driftwood that washes up on the beach.
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| 20 | February 13 | No Year | Events |
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February 13
Richard Pine kills and roasts a crab.
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| 21 | February 13 | No Year | Events |
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February 13
Narrator receives a hesitant sort of letter from the girl, saying that she's planning to get married.
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| 22 | February 14 | No Year | Events |
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February 14
Valentine's Day. Richard Pine notices that the storm washed away some of the rocks in his HELP sign. He makes the letters again.
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| 23 | February 14 | No Year | Events |
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February 14
Valentine's Day. Narrator decides it's time for a change of scene, says goodbye to the college scene and hitchhikes west, where he meets Nona, and almost kills a trucker at Joe's Good Eats.
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| 24 | February 14 | No Year | Events |
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February 14
Six inches of snow falls on Goat Island. "The snow came at last. Six inches on Valentine's Day, another six on the twentieth, and a foot in a good old norther on the leap, February 29."
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| 25 | February 15 | No Year | Events |
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February 15
Richard Pine spots a gull but it takes off before he can attempt to kill it.
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| 26 | February 17 | No Year | Events |
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February 17
Richard Pine amputates his right leg at the knee, losing a lot of blood.
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| 27 | February 20 | No Year | Events |
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February 20
Six inches of snow falls on Goat Island. "The snow came at last. Six inches on Valentine's Day, another six on the twentieth, and a foot in a good old norther on the leap, February 29."
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| 28 | February 23 | No Year | Events |
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February 23
Richard Pine eats a dead fish, rotten and stinking.
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| 29 | February 28 | No Year | Journal Entries |
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February 28
A disoriented and delusional Richard Pine records one last entry in his diary before losing it completely, entering the impossible date of February 40th.
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| 30 | June 30 | No Year | Events |
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June 30
Laundry workers Johnny Rocky Rockwell and Leo Edwards drive around, getting drunk and searching for an automobile inspection station. They find Bob's Gas & Service.
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| 31 | July 19 | No Year | Events |
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July 19
The night that the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke, and the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms David Drayton had ever seen.
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| 32 | July 23 | No Year | Events |
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July 23
David Drayton writes down the story of the mist at the Howard Johnson's motel near Exit 3, while outside pink bugs tick and thump off the glass.
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| 33 | November 19 | No Year | Events |
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November 19
Stella Flanders' birthday.
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