Word: pseudodoxia
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...reader only as myth, as a metaphor which mirrors the relations drawn in literature between our own experience and its intelligible representation. That Sir Thomas Browne is now studied in universities as a specimen of English 17th century prose doesn't concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which...
...theatregoer who storms the box office to see his or her cinematic god or goddess in person, however, the notions that the movie star should play the sedulous ape on the stage and chameleon-like run through their past repertory of screen characterization, is one of the pseudodoxia epidemica which die hard...
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