January 29


Amber pages


Emanuel Swedberg (changed to Swedenborg when he met God in 1741), model and exemplar of the mystical scientist, born today in 1688



Thomas Paine, key figure in the American Revolution, born today in 1737


Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, dramatist, born today in 1860


Fritz but he changed it to Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, composer, born today in 1862


Germaine Greer, born today in 1939, and probably still kicking her parents that it wasn't a day earlier, so she could identify even more precisely with Susan Sontag (the painting is by Paula Rego and is at the National Portrait Gallery in London)






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