"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).
Pages
▼
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
A Hideous Thing
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), My Heart Laid Bare VI (tr. T.R. Smith):
To be a useful man has always seemed to me a hideous thing.
Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.