Quotationary

Saturday, November 25, 2006

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to November 25. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago · 1973

In 2007 this day opens on Herman Melville.

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