Thursday, August 24, 2006

A couple of anniversaries ...

On this date in 1872, Max Beerbohm was born in London. What better memorial that Joseph Epstein's The Beerbohm Cult: Why Max Beerbohm is the world's greatest minor writer.

And Max himself: "Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. "

Also on the-is date, in 1899 in Buenas Aires, Jorge Luis Borges was born.

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