Think outside the bun
Colin Burrow: Quote Me!, 8 September 2022
The New Yale Book of Quotations
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,978 0 300 20597 8 Show More
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,
“... here?’How did we get here? What can the history of books of quotations tell us about what they’re now expected to contain? As everybody knows, ‘there is no new thing under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 1:9, often quoted as ‘There’s nothing new under the sun’), and there’s nothing new about quoting. Lines from Virgil figure among the graffiti at ... ”
