I'm the scholar in the dark armchair. Branches and rain fling themselves at the library casement.The scholar and author of the blog is Katie Gray. She is a law student, but her intellectual interests are obviously wide-ranging. She also happens to be my niece. Welcome to the blogosphere, Katie!
Je suis le savant au fauteuil sombre. Les branches et la pluie se jettent à la croisée de la bibliothèque.
"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, October 05, 2006
Scholar of the Dark Armchair
Scholar of the Dark Armchair is the name of an elegant new blog. The name comes from Rimbaud's poem Enfance (tr. A.S. Kline):