Sunday, May 30, 1976

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to May 30. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassWest India Emancipation speech · 1857

In 1977 this day opens on W. H. Auden.

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

May 30 · Quotationary