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Friday, February 10, 2012

Books / Breaking News A Book About a Thousand Things: What Causes Gossamers?

Posted by on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM

By George Stimpson, 1949.
  • By George Stimpson, 1949.

 

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Zebes 1
Fairy snot.
Posted by Zebes http://www.badrap.org/rescue/index.html on February 10, 2012 at 10:28 AM
care bear 2
Running in to those things freaks me the fuck out.
Posted by care bear on February 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Estey 3
I really wish someone would republish that whole book. Or make a huge amount of spoken word recordings from it.
Posted by Estey on February 10, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Zebes 4
@3

That would be fun. I want to see some entries read aloud against a heavy, high-energy backdrop, something like so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrMGXwhF…

I would totally love to learn about gossamer and sleeping horses and dummy clocks in such a fashion.
Posted by Zebes http://www.badrap.org/rescue/index.html on February 10, 2012 at 11:39 AM
5
As a result of these posts, I asked for -- and got -- this book (a nice, slightly ratty, delightfully aged hardcover) for Christmas.

It's stunning how much info is in this 65-year-old book that I never knew. What's old is new again, or something. It's Imponderables for the Mad Men set.
Posted by K on February 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM
rob! 6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_…)
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on February 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM
rob! 7
^Buggered link. Go here: http://bit.ly/136lPV
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on February 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM
8
The book is still out there: http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/titl…
Posted by bobbelieu on February 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM
this guy I know in Spokane 9
I think he's trying to say "they are caused by teenage spider masturbation."
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on February 10, 2012 at 3:47 PM

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