Word of the Day
Throughout his very considerable body of work, there is an obsession with time, with dates, with temporal coincidences, with the fatidic power of numbers over our birth and death. -- James Kirkup, "Obituary: Ernst Junger", Independent, February 18, 1998
I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. A P J Abdul Kalam, "Wings of Fire: an autobiography"