Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989887106)

For nearly two decades the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents some of the best: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting, and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle hours.

Author: Greg Ross
ISBN-10: 0989887103
ISBN-13: 9780989887106
Publisher: Futility Closet
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d