glueing-up

Updated: May 28, 2025

The wine is not "neat" but doctored; the composition is pastiche; a dozen other metaphors of stucco, veneer, glueing-up suggest themselves. And then there suggests itself, in turn, a sort of shame at such imputations on the author of such a mass of work, so various, so interesting, so important as accomplishment, symptom, and pattern at once.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel