#walking encyclopedia

Vintage walking dictionaries and walking encyclopedias are on the loose.

Anyway. I'm a nerd, it's official, and I'm okay with it. 😁

walking dictionary or encyclopedia​

All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.

Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.

We too often forget that even zombies were once better read than dead.  A crucial example is an article in a 1905 issue of Windsor magazine, in which the first example of a “walking encyclopaedia” is technically deceased (the late Sir Walter Besant).  Over the years, ravenousness for knowledge, even from beyond the grave, became equated with a base hunger for brains.  Alas, it’s all indicative of the “dumbing down” of popular culture.