Thursday, July 04, 2019
Happy Independence Day
Thomas Jefferson also died on this day in 1826.
National Gallery of Art, accession number 1986.711)
Thomas Jefferson also died on this day in 1826.
National Gallery of Art, accession number 1986.711)
"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).
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
