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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“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)