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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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message 1: by CCPL Staff (last edited Jun 21, 2014 07:20AM) (new)
Jun 21, 2014 07:19AM

CCPL Staff (ccplstaff) | 2 comments Hi folks,

Sorry it's taken a while for me to get this discussion going, but I hope that you all have had a chance to read this excellent book. Who knew that dictionaries could be so suspenseful?

So, a few questions for consideration and discussion:

Do you think there is a link between genius and madness? Both Minor and Murray were intelligent men who were motivated by an obsession. Is there a link between genius and obsession? Can all of these traits be mutually exclusive?


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