"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).
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
False Dichotomy
I've received more than one email message recently with this tag at the end:
If you agree, pass this on. If not, delete it.
I hardly ever forward email messages, especially partisan political ones, but on the other hand I don't necessarily disagree with all messages I delete.