Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
- ISBN-10
- 0394565657
- ISBN-13
- 9780394565651
- Category
- Reference / General
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Authors
- David Joseph Weeks, Jamie James
Description
Eccentrics shows you how to identify your own eccentricities and cultivate them so that you, too, can lead a happier - if perhaps slightly more odd - existence. After all, most eccentrics don't wear fright wigs and magenta tights (though they don't hesitate to do so if they feel the urge); many of them carry their weirdness within, and some have had profound cultural influences - consider Ben Franklin, who was a nudist (he called it "air-bathing"); Alexander Graham Bell, who tried to teach his dog to talk; and James Joyce, who always carried in his waistcoat a pair of ladies' bloomers, which he would wave at parties to show his approval.
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