Thursday, September 23, 1971

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to September 23. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854

In 1972 this day opens on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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

September 23 · Quotationary