Occasionally I wonder how valuable computerized analysis of works of literature will ever be. To reassure me that I’m not wasting my time, Jan Christoph Meister tells me what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe thought: Goethe discusses the pros and cons of morphology as a science, and eventually concludes: “Its arrangement of phenomena calls upon activities […]| Idiosophy
This is the finest title of a scholarly volume that I have ever encountered, and I feel sure it has not since been surpassed: Studies in Honor of Basil L. Gildersleeve. Anything using the name “Gildersleeve” is going to be aesthetically pleasing, but putting it into dactylic tetrameter makes it a work of genius.| Idiosophy