Dean Inge was delighted by an angry letter he had received from a lady who disagreed with one of his articles.
'I am praying nightly for your death,' she wrote. 'It may interest you to know that in two other cases I have had great success.'
"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, March 12, 2018
The Power of Prayer
James Sutherland, ed., The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 311 (number 426, excerpt):