Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Robert Rankin
Born: July 27, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies.
Known for:
- The Antipope (1981)
- The Brentford Triangle (1982)
- East of Ealing (1984)
- The Witches of Chiswick (2003)







