Saturday, March 1, 1958

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.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
John Gillespie Magee Jr.High Flight · 1941

In 1959 this day opens on Benjamin Franklin.

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

February 29 · Quotationary