Day 1,109

From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.

Artwork of the day 
Tumult and Escape
Gustave Dore
Style: Romanticism
Series: The Divine Comedy
Genre: illustration

Word of the day 
tumult：a loud noise, especially that produced by an excited crowd, or a state of confusion, change, or uncertainty

Quote of the day
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense