Futility Closet 2 by Greg Ross6/2/2023 ![]() He noted that the diary consists of "the words of an ordinary working man, a man of the people saying things that are very personal, because he knows they will not ever be read except a long time in the future. Greg Ross, who runs it, describes it as 'An idler's miscellany of. Buy Futility Closet 2: A Second Trove of Intriguing Tidbits 1 by Ross, Greg (ISBN: 9780989887120) from Amazons Book Store. ![]() The floorboards were excavated in the early 2000s, but the existence of the diary was not widely known until the publication of a book called Joaquim's Floorboard by historian Jacques-Olivier Boudon. Futility Closet is a blog about surprising passages found chiefly in out-of-print books. ![]() And his mother is my father's mistress." Martin refused to report the man, even when he tried to seduce Martin's wife, writing, "He's my old childhood friend. Here's a second helping of entertaining oddities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics from Futility Closet, the online catalog of beguiling curiosities: joyous dogs, soul-stirring Frenchmen, runaway balloons, U-turning communists, manful hummingbirds. Among his revelations are the fact that another villager had committed infanticide multiple times and hidden the evidence under a stable. Varying between mundane observations and poignant personal opinions, the diary provides a frank look into the provincial lives of Martin and his neighbors. ![]() The diary is made up of 72 entries dated between 18. ![]()
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