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On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
I am not as these are, the poet saith In youth's pride, and the painter, among men At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
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Published on this day
- 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- 1990 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
- 2008 Death's Shadow by Darren O'Shaughnessy
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- Sylvia Townsend Warner: Howard Coster or Cecil Beaton in 1930s, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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- Richard Percival Lister: Questing Beast, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized