Tuesday, February 29, 1972

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.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de MontaigneEssays · Of the Education of Children · 1580

In 1973 this day opens on Horace.

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

February 29 · Quotationary