Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Elaine Scarry

Born: June 30, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Elaine Scarry is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language. She is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The body in pain (1985)
- On Beauty and Being Just (1999)
- Thinking in an Emergency (Norton Global Ethics Series) (1993)
- Dreaming by the book (1957)
- Resisting representation (1994)
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