I was walking through the park and came across
this guy typing on an old-fashioned typewriter.
He tapped his chin for a second before saying,
“Othello” and began typing away.
Being the curious jerk that I am, I peered over
his shoulder to see what he was doing.
He had typed “Othello” on one line and followed
it with a description of the name as classically used in the English language.
I looked beside him and saw stacks and stacks of papers
with similar text. He had no phone and no computer near him. I was amazed!
“Holy cow, man! You’re writing an entire dictionary
from memory? That must be incredibly difficult!”
He said otherwise.
