The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

摘要

[...] when you add to the mix the recurring theme of mental illness among the central characters, you have a book destined (syn. preordained, tailor-made) for inclusion in the Journal's December issue. Roget had a rather unenjoyable (syn. distressing, grievous) experience as a guinea pig for Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy in their experiments with nitrous oxide as a potential treatment for consumption.