"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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Sunday, November 06, 2005
Idealism
Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), I, 325:
Every person with "ideals" is a potential assassin.
Todo individuo con "ideales" es un asesino potencial.