10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERENDIPITIST»
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serendipitist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
serendipitist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Out of this story of the King of Serendip have come two words for the English
language: serendipity, a gift for finding valuable things not sought for, and
serendipitist, the person who does the finding. Columbus, the greatest
serendipitist of all ...
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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in ...
36 Because the Oxford English Dictionary Online did not exist back in the 1950s,
Elinor Barber and I failed to identify the first usage of serendipitist in James
Joyce's Finnegan's Wake (London: Faber and Faber Limited, [May 4] 1939), p.
191.
Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber, 2011
What makes a serendipitist? A serendipitist is constantly discovering and storing
away odd bits of seemingly useless information. For example, a few years ago a
brilliant copywriter at our agency used serendipity to come up with a contest idea
...
What makes a serendipitist? A serendipitist is constantly discovering and storing
away odd bits of seemingly useless information. For example, a few years ago a
brilliant copywriter at our agency used serendipity to come up with a contest idea
...
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The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
'Any good library is to a serendipitist what a flypaper is to a fly* and, he concludes
, 'the most dangerous of all such flypapers to a fly of small learning such as
myself is the Reading Room of the British Museum'. He writes feelingly of the
hours ...
Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram David Lewin, Gregory Zilboorg, 1963
Alas, I was a serendipitist in Brooklyn and never knew it. 'Tis as well. However,
perhaps, my greatest pleasure as a lawyer in Brooklyn was that memorable
evening when the late Frank Hogan addressed the Brooklyn Bar Association.
What a ...
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Navigations: Collected Irish Essays, 1976-2006
'an Irish emigrant the wrong way out . . . semisemitic serendipitist . . .
Europeanised Afferyank' Finnegans Wake, 190—1 Roland Barthes ushered in
the structuralist era when he proclaimed that 'in narrative no one speaks'. This
obituary of the ...
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Echoland: Readings from Humanism to Postmodernism
semisemitic serendipitist, you (thanks, I The facing multilingual and English texts
of poem 7 of cycle I are from Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoardo
Sanguined, and Charles Tomlinson, Renga: A Chain of Poems, trans. Charles
Tomlinson ...
Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, 2006
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Epic Geography: James Joyce's "Ulysses"
... rover” (F W, 197) .4 And the great Norseman, Shaun, describes his artist
brother, Shem, as a “semi-semitic serendipitist,” a connoisseur of literature's
migrational axis through the Mediterranean and westward: “Europasianised
Afferyank!
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In and Out of Hollywood: A Biographer’s Memoir
Somehow I got through the days. And I did make new friends at Graham's. Barry
Humphries, then an obscure writer and serendipitist of oddities of science and
literature, was a lank, yellow-skinned, streaming-haired figure who would one
day ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERENDIPITIST»
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serendipitist is used in the context of the following news items.
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"I see my experience of the diagnosis as serendipitist in some ways," she says. "I'm fortunate enough not to have MND, and fortunate enough to have learnt a lot ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
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Stuart Witts is “an optimistic serendipitist”. His website (stayhappyanddontdie.com) is dedicated to his happy thoughts and lots of adverts for t-shirts with graphics ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
