Monday, July 18, 2005
![William Makepeace Thackeray](pix/thackeray.jpg)
[1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author, born in Calcutta, India]
![Clifford Odets](pix/odets-clifford.jpg)
[1906 - Clifford Odets, playwright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
![Joe Hill dead](pix/hill_joe3.jpg)
[1914 - Joe Hill sentenced to death in Utah (later executed)]
![Aisne-Marne battle](pix/aisne-marne-battle.jpg)
[1918 - Start of the WW-1 Battle of Aisne-Marne]
![Aisne-Marne Cemetary](pix/aisne-marne-cemetary.jpg)
[Aisne-Marne Cemetary]
Be Present
Writers live in the present because they know that something that is just about to happen may needs end up on the page.
![Aisne-Marne Memorial](pix/aisne-marne-memorial.jpg)
[Aisne-Marne Memorial]
William's Whimsical Words:
Writers live in the present and soldiers die in it.
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