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Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière, from a story in
Book I of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866; died October 29, 1949) Armenian philosopher and mystic;
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Died on this day:
Edmund Spenser (1599; born Unknown Date, 1552) English poet;
The Faerie Queen; also,
The Shepherd's Calendar; "Amoretti"; "Epithalamion"
James Joyce (1941; born February 2, 1882) Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet;
Ulysses;
Dubliners;
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
Finnegans Wake
Bonus Classic:
The Lotus Sutra (before 286 CE) Indian Buddhist text; the basis of several schools of Buddhism, it teaches that all schools are valid; all beings are already Buddhas; and non-intellectual devotion is essential.
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