Wednesday, February 29, 1928

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to February 29. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

February 29 stays in the book in common years. The lived calendar skips it. This page does not.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David ThoreauCivil Disobedience · 1849

In 1929 this day opens on Isaac Newton.

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

February 29 · Quotationary