"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, December 08, 2017
The Intellectual's Journey
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Point Counter Point, chapter XXVI:
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the
obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.