In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. . . .
Dans tout homme sommeille un prophète, et quand il s'éveille il y a un peu plus de mal dans le monde...
"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 01, 2018
The Prophetic Impulse
E.M. Cioran (1911-1995), A Short History of Decay, tr. Richard Howard (1975; rpt. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2012), p. 6: