To be hopelessly behind the times means nothing more to me than the hopelessness of living until the pendulum swings back, until the whirligig comes round.
"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 11, 2013
Behind the Times
B.L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924), "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 29 (1908) 368-380 (at 368), rpt. in Selections from the Brief Mention of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930), p. 166: