Thursday, April 1, 2004

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to April 1. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me.
Ludwig van BeethovenLetter to Franz Wegeler · 1801

In 2005 this day opens on Thucydides.

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

April 1 · Quotationary