I always feel more serene after a conversation with a few friendly animals than I do after an evening with even the most brilliant of my human acquaintances.Related post: True Love.
"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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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Congenial Company
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Best of Two Worlds (New York: William Sloane, 1953), p. 18, quoted by John D. Margolis, Joseph Wood Krutch: A Writer's Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980), p. 163: