Rejoice in the Lamb
Feb. 25th, 2007 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoToday's reading, from Charles Lamb:
"Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing! When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity--then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou called'st it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being every thing! the past is every thing, being nothing!"
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That was one of the problems I had with a recent meme about one's reading that was floating around. It said something along the lines of, "And don't you use one of those pretentious classics to make yourself look good!" Well, um, bad news, kids, but I really do read such classics just because I enjoy them.
"Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing! When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity--then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou called'st it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being every thing! the past is every thing, being nothing!"
*^*^*
That was one of the problems I had with a recent meme about one's reading that was floating around. It said something along the lines of, "And don't you use one of those pretentious classics to make yourself look good!" Well, um, bad news, kids, but I really do read such classics just because I enjoy them.
