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Read across, rather than down, the above becomes a poem. Call it Civilized Man. Only he gives names to, let alone catalogues reading, sex, and eating. The difficulty of the task is revealed in the bizarre logic of classification, which is no more advanced than the "certain Chinese encyclopedia" in a passage by Borges, quoted by Foucault, in which it it written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with...
...author, "Cervantes. . . seems to have had alternate phases of lucidity . . . and sloppy vagueness, much as his hero was mad in patches." Don and squire wander and blunder through Spain, tilting at customs and rituals, obscure priests and famous windmills. En route, they are beaten and humiliated in "a veritable encyclopedia of cruelty." Even the animals suffer so greatly, admits Cervantes, that if a horse "had possessed the power to complain, you may be sure that he would have been an equal for Sancho and his master...
...decks the book stalls, together with its gleeful companion volume, More Joy of Sex. Chaster readers may prefer Joy of Cheesecake, or Joy of Photography with its predictably titled sequel (you guessed it) More Joy of Photography. And could any kitchen be complete withoutJoy of Cooking, cookbook cum encyclopedia--America's answer to Larousse Gastronomique...
Here is how a widely-used encyclopedia describes Kennedy's assassination (the text was written by Warren Professor of American History Emeritus Frank B. Freidel...
...maiden voyage in January, the orbiter Challenger will carry up an equally impressive bird: the first component of the U.S.'s new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The TRW-built satellite will digest the equivalent of 140 encyclopedia volumes in a single, second-long electronic gulp. Eventually the system will consist of four satellites ringing the earth at roughly equal distances from one another. TDRSS will relay signals not only between ground and orbit but also between satellites, thereby eliminating the need for a globe-girdling network of ground stations to keep in touch with spacecraft like...