"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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Monday, January 01, 2018
A Restorative
Jules Renard, Journal (January 22, 1910; tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget):
The detestable pleasure, almost in the nature of a restorative,
of venting one's bad humor upon others.
Le détestable plaisir, presque un remède, d'exercer sur les autres sa mauvaise humeur.