"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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Thursday, December 09, 2004
The Modern World
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Succesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992), II, 226:
The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.