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"Continent's End", Robinson Jeffers Pg 407-413 The basis of this story is talking about the end of what is seen as the continents, hence the title.  It starts talking about the equinox, the equinox is "the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator" also, day and night are of equal length. They are at what sounds like a beach, there is granite that is being sprayed by the ocean. Could also be a cove of some sort. it talks about the long distance travel, and how he has gotten older with age the span of the Continent is even further than the span of the ocean, it is doubled. 

"Anonymous Chinese Immigrants" pg: 354-355 This starts off saying that there are over a hundred poems on the walls. Im not sure if this is literal, or more of a metaphor.  Commiserate: express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize. Travelers want to sympathize, but it does not seem to be effective.  In the second section it talks about how quickly time passes, the person is "somewhat young" but time is "passing ever so quickly, in the blink of an eye" In the last passage it is saying its a summer like first month of the new year. So it is a new year, however, it feels more like summer than anything else.  It seems to be Chinese new year from what I can tell, it is talking about New Year scrolls that decorate the houses.