"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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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Invitation
Bai Juyi, A Suggestion to My Friend Liu (tr. Witter Bynner):
There's a gleam of green in an old bottle, There's a stir of red in the quiet stove, There's a feeling of snow in the dusk outside — What about a cup of wine inside?