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Found myself wandering into the bookstore and happened upon the 'Who Knew' section. Dont quite know why I have not seen it before. Full of titles like:</p>
A Brief History of the Smile</p>
The Toothpick</p>
The Humble Little Condom: A History</p>
The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug: Aspirin</p>
and my favorite The Secret Life of Lobsters </p>
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It put quite a nice smile on my face. </p>
Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.
I use The Toothpick as an example when I tell my students that there is no such thing as running out of thoughts (whipping them into shape to not give me half-size papers). Nothing like a 400 page book on a toothpick to drive the point home.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
[quote user="Faust"]I use The Toothpick as an example when I tell my students that there is no such thing as running out of thoughts (whipping them into shape to not give me half-size papers). Nothing like a 400 page book on a toothpick to drive the point home.
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I think it is absolutely great. I am feeling compelled to go and check out the 'Who Knew' section now frequently. I almost bought the Lobster book but ran out of time... </p>
Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.
"Clues: Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes," an essay by Carlo Ginzburg</p>
feeling the tininess of my pea-sized brain acutely....[:|]</p>
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Is there a link? JSTORE? I'll read anything that has Sherlock Holmes in the title.</p>
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I spent most of 2007 reading The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. It's printed exactly as it appeared in the Strand. Holmes isn't a jerk until after he returns from the dead.
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Read the Border Trilogy and finishing Suttree. Dude. This did make me think I was some sort of cowboy until I rode a horse for the first time a few weeks ago.
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