Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Philanthropy and Misanthropy
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (March 1846):
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I like man, but not men.
"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).
I like man, but not men.
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.