The God of the Christians is a father who cares very much about his apples, and very little about his children.Thanks to Ian Jackson for the reference to Delon's edition.
Le Dieu des chrétiens est un père qui fait grand cas de ses pommes, et fort peu de ses enfants.
"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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Friday, May 05, 2017
Chief Orchardist
Denis Diderot (1713-1784), "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques," number 16, in his Oeuvres philosophiques, ed. Michel Delon (Paris: Gallimard, 2010), p. 40 (my translation):