Dec 29, 2024
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Vintage walking dictionaries and walking encyclopedias are on the loose.
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Vintage walking dictionaries and walking encyclopedias are on the loose.
I don't want to say this is "living the dream," but this is kind of a big moment for me... I'm officially the encyclopedia of my office. Any random history-related questions my coworkers or my bosses have, they direct to me. And I don't know why that makes me so happy, but it DOES!
Anyway. I'm a nerd, it's official, and I'm okay with it. 😁
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walking dictionary or encyclopedia
kinda crazy that Brendan said beard read 30 football books in 3 days. Like.
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All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.
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Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.
We too often forget that even zombies were once better read than dead. A crucial example is an article in a 1905 issue of Windsor magazine, in which the first example of a “walking encyclopaedia” is technically deceased (the late Sir Walter Besant). Over the years, ravenousness for knowledge, even from beyond the grave, became equated with a base hunger for brains. Alas, it’s all indicative of the “dumbing down” of popular culture.
I don’t know why I still get surprised by what Reid knows..