One of the ways I’ve learned to look at writing, at stories, is to imagine them as both horizontal and vertical. Personal essays, for instance, tend to the vertical–an examination of a subject from a variety of levels up and down along a plane. So when I saw this meme on Creative Little Daisy, I thought, yes, that suits me right now. Here’s the deal. Go to Wikipedia and do a search for your birthday, month and day, sans year. Pick three events, three births, three deaths, and list them. Consider yourself tagged if you read PoMo Golightly! Here are a few tidbits from 9 February:
Events:
1775 – American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747
Births:
1404 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
1960 – Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
1952 – Mookie Wilson, baseball player (and fellow alum of my alma mater)
Deaths
1450 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
1955 – Albert Einstein, American, Swiss physicist, (b. 1879)
