Cymru Roberts’s Reviews > The Orator's Education, Books 1–2 > Status Update

"A further task will be the explanation of historical allusions; this must be scholarly, but not overloaded with superfluous labour. (italics mine)

To hunt down everything ever said even by the most despised writer means either wretched pedantry or ostentatious vanity. It suppresses and smothers alents which would be better kept free for other matters."