Monday, May 01, 2006
No
Wendell Berry, What Are People For? Essays (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990), p. 190:
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Do I wish to keep up with the times? No.
"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).
Do I wish to keep up with the times? No.
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.