From the back of The Portable Renaissance Reader:
The 200 years we call the Renaissance were so eventful and contradictory that one man, Erasmus of Rotterdam, could decry their tyranny, avarice and iniquity, yet proclaim the "near approach of a Golden Age."
The quote, from a letter to Wolfgang Capito, is mildly out of context, but the power is fully in context.
We are flux aquatic amid the glittering meme globules which wash over us and swamp the sloops with whirling stellar skirmishes.
