SHOULD WE KNOW STUFF?

A WRITER'S WIT
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied,  and it is all one.
M. F. K. Fisher,  American Food Writer
Author of An Alphabet for Gourmets
​Born July 3,  1908

M. F. K. Fisher

MY BOOK WORLD

Clark, Josh and Chuck Bryant. With Nils Parker. Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things. New York: Flatiron, 2020.

These two writers first wrote about stuff we should know by way of a podcast, and this book seems to be the result of those efforts.
 
I actually learned some things I didn’t mind knowing: all about Murphy beds, Mezcal, History of the Income Tax, Cyanide Pills (Hitler’s choice for dying), Do(ugh)nuts, the Japanese Kamikaze pilots, and even Jack Kevorkian (assisted suicide guru and activist). 
 
Some of the stuff I didn’t need to know, no matter how long I might live: all about Well-Witching, Keeping Up With the Joneses, and Child Prodigies.
 
Maybe SYSK 2 will be better overall?

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