Encyclopaedia Brittanica, requiescat in pace ...

[Ian Livingston]

It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair for me. Started out
learning about my celebrated ancestor, wound up learning all I could
from Ants to Zeno, then it was off to the races....

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, bummer. Sore bummer for all those kids who don't get to grow up
>> lost in those volumes.
>
> I eventually read the 1973 World Book Encyclopedia in its entirety.
> So far as I'm concerned, Richard M. Nixon is still president and
> Beirut is "The Paris of the Mideast."  I was the first--and only--kid
> on my block who knew who Stefan Zweig was:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchmendel ...



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant