"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 11, 2012
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), quoted by Byron Rogers in his obituary of Thomas, The Guardian (September 26, 2000):
"My mother used to ask my father, 'Haven't you a good word to say about anybody?' He thought for a long time and said 'No'."