qotd-idian

Quote of the day? Seems a tiresome possiblity, in some ways, and there is (sigh...) a fine quotation I've encountered somewhere regarding quotation as a useful substitute for intelligence (or wit, but I'm fast and loose with the obscuring of serial numbers, re-packaging, and re-purposing (ugh) as necessary). But the inimitable Charlus, in Proust's Soddom and Gomorrah, had me laughing out loud on the subway this morning, 'I see, though, that you are deaf to metaphor and indifferent to French history'. So roundly and soundly damning, what's not to love?