"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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Saturday, September 30, 2017
Take the Cure
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Escolios a un texto implícito, 2a ed., Tomo I (Bogotà: Villegas Editores, 2005), p. 38:
Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.
I.e.:
Ancient literature is the only remedy for modern scabies.