The Waste Books Featured nestled like pages in a

nestled like pages in a book

who''s getting old and not feeling well

Hominy Jenkins―he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school

and the profundities of friendship

and prepare for war

The Waste Books Featured nestled like pages in aGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society,