Tuesday, August 17, 1886

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to August 17. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. KennedyAddress at Rice University · 1962

In 1887 this day opens on T. S. Eliot.

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

August 17 · Quotationary