Thursday, August 12, 1982

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to August 12. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

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

In 1983 this day opens on Geoffrey Chaucer.

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

August 12 · Quotationary