What monsters, Sir, all these great men of antiquity! Let us burn all that remains of their texts...
Quels monstres, monsieur, que tous ces grands hommes de l'antiquité! Brûlons tout ce qui nous reste de leurs écrits...
"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, September 29, 2017
Dead White Males
Voltaire (1694-1778), Grateful Thanks to a Charitable Man (tr. G.K. Noyer):