17 July

Born in 1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese filmmaker.

Above: Still from Wong’s 2000 film, In The Mood For Love.

Also, born in 1674, English hymn writer Isaac Watts.

From the hymn, Our God, Our Help in Ages Past:

A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day.