In "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," explain the references to "Wednesday."

"Wednesday drowsiness," "Wednesday meat," and "Wednesday bodies" all have a common meaning:  tiresome.  In many communities where the majority of the residents were (and are)  fishermen, the men return from their voyages on Thursdays, so by Wednesday, supplies are getting low in the town (and stinky!).  Wives and children are getting anxious and bored. 

It's like our own notion of "hump day," but hopefully we aren't eating six day old fish, right?

Here are a couple of the passages in which "Wednesday" and its tiresome nature are discussed:

After midnight the whistling of the wind died down and the sea fell into its Wednesday drowsiness.

...the men finally expoled with since when has there ever been such a fuss over a drifting corpse, a drowned nobody, a piece of cold Wednesday meat.