"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, September 21, 2011
Take a Seat
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Sudelbücher (J 520, tr. R. J. Hollingdale):
We cannot truly know whether we are not at this moment sitting in a madhouse.
Man kann wirklich nicht wissen ob man nicht jetzt im Tollhaus sitzt.