The essays of Elia

I give up! I appreciate Lamb's skill but I, a somewhat well-educated and moderately intelligent reader, find him too hard to keep up with. It's not only the outdated allusions, with which any such essays will be replete, and it is not only L—-‘s use of now-archaic conventions and * * * * * that make it so difficult to read. Several times I found myself reading along like a good citizen of the literary highway and Wham! Out of the blue I realize I have no idea where I am or how I got there. Some of that is probably my fault, but some of it, I think, just might be the fault of L.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.