Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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 hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas JeffersonThe Declaration of Independence · 1776

In 2012 this day opens on Frederick Douglass.

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

February 29 · Quotationary