Saturday, March 1, 1941

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.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.
Anton ChekhovLetter to Alexei Suvorin · 1888

In 1942 this day opens on Booker T. Washington.

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

February 29 · Quotationary