A piece made from random phrases from The Professor and the Madman.
Biographical Notes
Assembled by yours truly, from Simon Winchester's text.
The great librarian for the next century-and-a-half was engaged with the Celtic, and am at present engaged with the Slavonic, having obtained a useful knowledge of the Russian.
Heaven had ordained their creation, each word, offering its biography, as it were. It is important to know just when a word was born , the simple fact that they had been sent to him in the first place.
For a while, at least, he seemed truly happier. Had anyone chosen to ponder further, he or she might have wondered at the strange symmetry.
The truth, however, turns out to be the first lines of a brief penciled note that lurks anonymously among the scores of papers that measure out the trivial details of the life.
But Dr. Brawyn said no.
It was those naked village girls Minor remembered most. The volunteer's duties were simple enough. The normal practice was almost certainly followed in his case.
A most splendid thing indeed, in Victorian London.