Thursday, February 29, 1940

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.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Viktor FranklMan’s Search for Meaning · 1946

In 1941 this day opens on Anton Chekhov.

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

February 29 · Quotationary