Thursday, April 23, 2009

Quoting Dame Edith Sitwell

"In conclusion, he condensed them all for madmen, fools, idiots, asses, O stulti, quaenam haecc est amenti?  O fools, O madmen! he exclaims, insane studia, insane, labores, etc., mad endeavours, mad actions, mad, mad, mad, O seculum insipiens et infacetum, a giddy-headed age."

the last sentence in "The God of This World," English Eccentrics

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