Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Poshlust
Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive."
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006
bibliobibuli
" There are people who read too much, bibliobibuli. i know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander though this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."
-H.L. Mencken's Notebook 71, 1956.
(Word posted at 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, October 26th 2007)