Bergen Evans - The Natural History of Nonsense

Bergen Evans - The Natural History of Nonsense
Michael Joseph, London, 1947
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An assault upon some of the more preposterous errors and legends that mankinkind insists on believing
A book exposing common fallacies and popular errors, including those related to natural history, medicine and race.

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU
Until about a hundred years ago rational men lived like
spies in an enemy country. They never walked abroad unless
disguised in irony or allegory. To have revealed their true selves
would have been fatal.
Today their status is more that of guerrillas. They snipe
from cover, ambush stragglers, harass retreating rear guards, cut
communications, and now and then execute swift forays against
detached units of the enemy. But they dare not yet risk an open
engagement with the main force; they would be massacred. Their
life is dangerous but exciting and is warmed by a sense of
camaraderie not often known among the dull conscripts of
orthodoxy.
This book is intended as a sort of handbook for young
recruits in the gay cause of common sense. It indicates where the
main armies of ignorance are now encamped and tells in a secret
code what garrisons are undermanned or mutinous. It tries to
show the use of cover and camouflage and the techniques of
infiltration and retreat. It maps road blocks and mine fields and
shows how to rig a booby trap. It warns of counterespionage and
gives— again in code—the five infallible signs to know a fool.
When the recruit has finished with it he can toss it over the
wall into the enemy's barracks. It may encourage desertion

CONTENTS
Here's Looking at You
1 Adam's Navel
2 Great Guns and Little Fishes
3 High Thought on a Low Plane
4 Birds in Their Little Nests
5 The Furred Folk
6 The Lower Orders Mute
7 Wolf! Wolf!
8 Preconceptions
9 Hark, From the Womb!
10 Rigors of Mortis
11 The Sorry Scheme of Things
12 The Inside Story
13 Never Mind
14 The Skin Game
15 Nothing to Crow About
16 Some of My Best Friends
17 Lesser Breeds and Latin Lovers
18 Lo, the Poor Indian!
19 A Tale of a Tub


Nonfiction

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