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Quotation of the Day for January 2, 2016"Kolniyatsch was born, last of a long line of rag-pickers, in 1886. At the age of nine he had already acquired that passionate alcoholism which was to have so great an influence in the moulding of his character and on the trend of his thought. Otherwise he does not seem to have shown in childhood any exceptional promise. It was not before his eighteenth birthday that he murdered his grandmother and was sent to that asylum in which he wrote the poems and plays belonging to what we now call his earlier manner." - Max Beerbohm, from his story Kolniyatsch (1913). Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Dec. 8, 2015  |
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