Thursday, January 6, 2005

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to January 6. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale HurstonHow It Feels to Be Colored Me · 1928

In 2006 this day opens on Frederick Douglass.

Arrow keys turn the day. S keeps the line. Slash focuses search.

January 6 · Quotationary