Aesop, that great man, saw his master pissing as he walked. "What next?" he said. "Shall we have to shit as we run?"What is the source of this story?
Esope ce grand homme vid son maistre qui pissoit en se promenant. Quoy donq, fit-il, nous faudra-il chier en courant?
"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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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Quisquilienforschung
Montaigne, Essays 3.13 (Of Experience, tr. Donald M. Frame):