Quote of the day
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
Marilyn Butler

Born: February 11, 1937
Died: March 11, 2014 (aged 77)
Bio: Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004.
Known for:
- Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975)
- Jane Austen (2007)
- Maria Edgeworth (1972)