Events
- J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
- November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
- The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
- Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
- E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
- Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.
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“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
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“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)