"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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Monday, June 04, 2007
How To Pick Up Girls
Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys (New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2007):
Avoid being vulgar. Excitable bouts of windbreaking will not endear you to a girl, just to pick one example.