ace of diamonds

First, as for yesterday and today’s titles: My summer reading schedule covers exactly 52 days (not counting days set aside for spillage). That’s the same number of weeks in a year or cards in a deck. Yesterday, on my first day of reading, I bought a deck of cards, shuffled it 13 times, and will now turn one card over every day I read. I’m not sure why and I’m not sure what I’ll do with this playing card information, but there it is. In any case, posts with playing card titles will be about that day’s reading in some way or another.

Today:

Of these mustachios or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as, in England, would have passed for frightful. —Defoe, Robinson Crusoe