Dear M. Gilleland,I appreciate the kind words, but I suspect a forgery, especially because the handwriting looks so familiar. The postcard brightened a dreary day and brought a smile to my face. Thanks, old friend!
The Holy See would like to express its gratitude to you for your web log; we read it every Sunday.
Your pal in the Holy See,
Benedict XVI
"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, December 18, 2005
Postcard from Rome
In yesterday's mail I received a card, postmarked at Rome's Fiumicino Aiport, that read: