Amy's review
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
by Anne Fadiman
Amy's review
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
Amy's review
rating:
recommended for: sesquipedals
I devoured this book in about three bites. I'm sorry that it's over but I'm happy to report that it has opened up many new avenues of study for me. My favorite sentence:
"What hashish was to Baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Stevenson, nitrous oxide to Robert Southey, mescaline to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffeine was to Balzac."
Let's take all those drugs and read all those books.
If you get a copy of this from the Monroe County public library, look for the one with the coffee stain that somehow made its way underneath the dust jacket. That was my doing. Why am I such a slob?
"What hashish was to Baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Stevenson, nitrous oxide to Robert Southey, mescaline to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffeine was to Balzac."
Let's take all those drugs and read all those books.
If you get a copy of this from the Monroe County public library, look for the one with the coffee stain that somehow made its way underneath the dust jacket. That was my doing. Why am I such a slob?
