It's the first day of December. It's National Pie Day, Feast day of St Eligius, and the day that Barbes Diena is observed. December 1 is also Rosa Parks Day: the day that she ignited controversy by refusing to move to the back of the bus.
December 1st was also that date in 1830 when Victor Hugo was supposed to finish his famous novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Of course, he missed the deadline, and the novel wouldn't be published until 1831, but it's still a literary curiosity for the day.
In the novel, Hugo writes: "When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door."
In other reading for December 1st, Vachel Lindsay writes:
"This section is a Christmas tree:
Loaded with pretty toys for you.
Behold the blocks, the Noah's arks,
The popguns painted red and blue.
No solemn pine-cone forest-fruit,
But silver horns and candy sacks
And many little tinsel hearts
And cherubs pink, and jumping-jacks.
For every child a gift, I hope.
The doll upon the topmost bough
Is mine."
Read the reading selection for this December 1st.
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