"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, May 30, 2026
Paradise Lost
C.S. Lewis, letter to Eric Fenn (May 7, 1943):
Sorry again. But a talk to the general public on
'Paradise Lost' would be an
absolute waste of time. What's the good of telling them they'll enjoy it, when we
both know they won't?