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.
Rayner Heppenstall

Born: July 27, 1911
Died: May 23, 1981 (aged 69)
Bio: John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.
Known for:
- The blaze of noon (1939)
- The greater infortune (1960)
- The fourfold tradition (1961)
- The connecting door (1962)