"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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Sunday, September 13, 2015
Rereading
Hippolyte Taine, letter to Guillaume Guizot (June 1854; on Stendhal; my translation):
But I have read his novels sixty to eighty times each, and I keep on rereading them.
Mais j'ai lu les romans soixante à quatre-vingts fois chacun et je les relis.