Saturday, August 31, 2002

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.

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

In 2003 this day opens on W. H. Auden.

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

August 31 · Quotationary