Events
- Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.
- Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
- Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle.
- Claude Debussy writes his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
- Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family.
- Scottish writer William Sharp publishes Pharais, his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod.
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“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.”
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“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)