Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Paul Bowles

Born: December 30, 1910
Died: November 18, 1999 (aged 88)
Bio: Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, Morocco, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
Known for:
- The Sheltering Sky (1949)
- The spider's house (1955)
- Let It Come Down (1952)
- Up Above the World (1966)
- The Stories of Paul Bowles