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FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
A PERFECT ANSWER.
A few days ago Dr. Boli asked what his readers thought about the classification of books by race or gender identification. Mr. Craig Conley of “Abecedarian” fame points out a limitation in Dr. Boli’s original question and makes a visual argument that you must go and see for yourself.
From DR. BOLI’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY.
Bronchitis (noun).—Inflammation of the Bronx. A common ailment of large cities.
ALTERNATE HISTORY.
March is International Steel Pen Appreciation Month, in honor of which Dr. Boli has hurriedly scribbled today’s essay with an Esterbrook 048 Falcon.
The text is printed below.
FAMOUS QUOTATIONS.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and big hairy spiders.
——Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(The quotation is usually truncated.)
FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
BEGINNINGS OF FAMOUS NOVELS REWRITTEN TO SUIT MODERN TASTES.
No. 1.—A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
Sidney Carton flicked the ashes from his dwindling cigarette and stepped out into the street.
Damn eighteenth century, he thought. It’s, like, all good and bad at the same time.
FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
A PRECISE GEOMETRICAL DESCRIPTION.
His hair, from much running of fingers through it, radiates in all directions, and surrounds his head like a halo of glory, or like the corollary of Euc. I.32.
——Charles Dodgson, Euclid and His Modern Rivals.
FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
