Laudator Temporis Acti

"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, August 20, 2022

Saint Erasmus

Dedication of Jeff Persels and Russell Ganim, edd., Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology (2004; rpt. London: Routledge, 2016):

To Erasmus, patron saint of intestinal disorders
Ora pro nobis.

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Michael Gilleland: Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.

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