"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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Sunday, August 25, 2019
The Greatest of Vocations
Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 121:
To be a scholar is the greatest of vocations: to compose a devout commentary, a Talmud, on the created world.