Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Certainty
Euripides, Bacchae 196 (tr. Moses Hadas and John McLean):
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We alone are right. The others are wrong.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
We alone are right. The others are wrong.
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.