Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rarely have school librarians seen so many children so eager to get at the encyclopedia. At Lindbergh School in Palisades Park, N.J., about 600 pupils a week read it. At Princeton High School in Princeton, N.J., 30 children a day use it. At Palisades Park High School, 15 students line up each weekday by 8 a.m. to get their chance to scan it. The object of all this excitement is the Academic American, an electronic encyclopedia...
...Academic American Encyclopedia is carried by the Dow Jones News/Retrieval service and Bibliographic Retrieval Services, two information data base systems. Dow Jones News/Retrieval also carries business and financial news, while Bibliographic Retrieval Services supplies information on academic and scientific research. The two firms provide the electronic encyclopedia to some 90,000 subscribers, including 200 public and university libraries and eight schools in three states. Customers can hook up to the encyclopedia with a personal computer over a telephone line or via cable television. Average price for the service: 60? a minute during the day with a personal computer...
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...