Wednesday, March 1, 1995

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.

We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
SocratesPlato, Crito · 399 BCE

In 1996 this day opens on The Gospel of Matthew.

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

February 29 · Quotationary