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Armageddon, the metric system, and you.

Posted by Tara on 05.22.2012 at 12:36 pm

Tara Gilchrist manages the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectible department, and shares this recent find.

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Old books don’t have to be rare, scarce, or pricey to be evocative and meaningful. They just need to connect you with an idea or a feeling that’s important to you.

For example: the other day, while sorting through a box of books, I came across this:

Suddenly, I was back in the fourth grade, pinned to my desk in fear, choking on the smell of chalk, lead, kid-sweat. We were about to learn THE. METRIC. SYSTEM.  Only smart people who spoke foreign languages used this system! (If you spoke anything other than English, you were smart, of course.) It would be difficult! And if we didn’t convert—we’d perish! Read more…

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