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  • A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

    "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.nytimes.com. 1963.