Curiosa: Quote for the Day

From a polemic by the seventeenth-century controversialist Edward Stillingfleet:

And if dark passages and intricate windings, if obscure sense and perplexed consequences, if uncertain wand'rings and frequent self-contradictions may make a writing be call'd a Labyrinth, I know no Modern Artist who comes so near the skill of the Cretan Artificer as yourself.

Hmm. That's the kind of insult one might almost wear as a badge of pride ("He thinks my work Daedalian!").