If I dislike England being Americanised, I can fairly claim that I have always protested in the past against America being Anglicised. I think a nation is never so good as when it is national and never so bad as when it is international.
"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
▼
Thursday, November 02, 2017
Against Homogenization
G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (January 2, 1926):