Winding Up the Week #485

An end of week recap “Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.” – Jack London (The Editor, March 1903) Another literary deluge awaits as we fall into the final few days of September. Today is European Day of Languages, celebrated by countries across the continent, then in Canada, the UK and America it is National Ghost Hunting Day. For those needing a chocolate fix (i.e. me), it is National Chocolate Milk Day in the same three countries, and the Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the Chinese Moon Festival) – whose roots can be traced back some two to three millennia – also takes place over the weekend. Wordsmiths born on this day include the American-English poet, essayist and playwright T.S. Eliot (1888), English writer Minette Walters (1949), American novelist Jane Smiley (1949), English writer and…