Friday, March 1, 2002

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.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby · the closing line · 1925

In 2003 this day opens on Geoffrey Chaucer.

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

February 29 · Quotationary