Thursday, March 1, 1990

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854

In 1991 this day opens on Pablo Neruda.

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

February 29 · Quotationary