"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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Wednesday, July 08, 2020
The Great Yes
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ § 55 (tr. Judith Norman):
A pagan is anyone who says yes to life, who sees 'god' as the word for the great yes to all things.
Heiden sind alle, die zum Leben Ja sagen, denen "Gott" das Wort für das grosse Ja zu allen Dingen ist.