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| Title | : | Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements |
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989887103 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-18 |
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Editorial : "Futility Closet delivers concentrated doses of weird, wonderful, brain-stimulating ideas and anecdotes, curated mainly from forgotten old books. I'm hooked -- there's nothing quite like it!" -- Mark Frauenfelder, founder, Boing Boing
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For nine years the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents the best of them: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting, and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle hours.
By rendering a complete and extremely dense exposition of the "magical view of language" that is inherent in the grounding and self-rationalization of the law, he does away with law's illusions about itself.
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