- via The Autocrat of the Breakfast‐table: Every Man His Own Boswell (Chapter XI, page 266). by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. United Kingdom, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891.
- Wikipedia: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Wikiquote
- also, Man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension. –Oliver Wendell Holmes. From the series Great Ideas by Ivan Chermayeff
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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Taken from The Tempest (c. 1610): O, I have sufferedWith those that I saw suffer.(Miranda, Act 1 Scene 2) My library was dukedom large enough.(Prospero, Act 1 Scene 2) Ferdinand, With hair up‐staring – then like reeds, not hair – Was …
Found: Random-facts-from-the-internet.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …
Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …
From an interview with the late, great Larry King. Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience: “All in the Family” “Maude” “Good Times” “The Jeffersons” “Sanford and Son” …
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