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 all the oddities from both companies. Also looked it up on the Library of Congress webpage.
That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
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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 …
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” …
…I suppose that’s the problem.
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