There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
Janet Frame
August 28, 1924: Janet Frame was a patient at New Zealand’s Seacliff Lunatic Asylum when her first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, was published. Its success led to the cancellation of a scheduled lobotomy. Frame went on to have a lasting literary career. She was born 89 years ago today.