THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Is the man, for example, engaged in the mass-production of lavatory cisterns encouraged to bring to his daily monotonous toil the vision splendid of an increasingly hygienic world? I doubt it; yet there is much merit in sanitary plumbing—more, if you come to think of it, than there is in warfare. But if the common man were really to adopt this high-minded and Christian attitude to the worth of his work and the needs of his neighbour, are there not some products which he would refuse at all costs to produce?”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

BIRTHDAYS:

1825 R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone).

1848 Paul Gauguin, French post-impressionist painter.

1867 Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, Italian composer. Serenata op. 28, and Etude impromptu, Op. 37

MISCELLANEOUS:

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