tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post8368837668904854903..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: Happy Birthday, OEDAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-30438618855849572192010-02-01T20:31:37.739-06:002010-02-01T20:31:37.739-06:00This was a fun post. I miss having an online subsc...This was a fun post. I miss having an online subscription through the university. I wasted so much time on that site.<br /><br />And no one ever reads anything I recommend either.Just Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091687995001342011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-7979378645635985342010-02-01T09:23:44.509-06:002010-02-01T09:23:44.509-06:00That's it! And the one I sent to my mom. I'...That's it! And the one I sent to my mom. I've had people read books I suggested . . . I'm amazed that that's not ever happened to you. Maybe it's because you read stuff nobody ever heard of or about stuff nobody ever heard of. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-33208652267538137132010-02-01T06:00:42.289-06:002010-02-01T06:00:42.289-06:00William Chester Minor
Simon Winchester, "The...William Chester Minor<br /><br />Simon Winchester, "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary", HarperPerennial, New York, 1998, hardback and trade paperback, ISBN 0-06-017596-6. OCLC 38425992 (Original British edition has the title The Surgeon of Crowthorne, ISBN 0-14-027128-7. OCLC 42083202)Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-38738146214476453912010-02-01T05:55:18.220-06:002010-02-01T05:55:18.220-06:00I listened to the book on tape about the fellow in...I listened to the book on tape about the fellow in prison; he had killed a man and was judged to be insane, I think. <br />Of course, I forget his name and the name of the book, but I hadn't really intended to remember it anyway.<br /><br />No one ever read a book on my recommendation that I am aware of. I can imagine if I were to say, "Hey! Read this book about a mad men who loved words!" I'm sure the people I know would run right out and get a copy.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com