Tuesday, August 11, 2015

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to August 11. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
HillelPirkei Avot · 1:14 · 1st century BCE

In 2016 this day opens on Charles Dickens.

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

August 11 · Quotationary