"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, June 20, 2020
What's Wrong with Cervantes?
This statue by Joseph Jacinto Mora, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, depicts Don Quixote and Sancho Panza looking up at their creator Cervantes.
Hat tip: Eric Thomson, who writes, "Cervantes of all people. There's no rhyme or reason with these self-righteous thugs. I suspect it's actually Western culture they detest. Ritual book-burning will be next."