Friday, August 31, 1973

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to August 31. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not.
EpicurusLetter to Menoeceus · 3rd century BCE

In 1974 this day opens on Julius Caesar.

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

August 31 · Quotationary