Short and Sweet WTF

Other notable features include the dedication (“For Frederick Stuart, who does not know yet”) and the truly ineffable description of the ship Garibaldi as “an amiable old rust bucket out of Brindisi”.

When a quote from a supposedly scientific work fits into a quote from a fantasy novel, you know you’re in trouble. Example: “But of course; the power within the spheres has already been disturbed from the mold. Unless we transmute their destructive natures and harmonize them, they will explode of their own volition with cataclysmic…

Although fiction seems to have a monopoly on literature that makes its readers go ‘WTF’, the realms of nonfiction are fully capable of holding their own—even, or perhaps especially, the most mundane sorts of nonfiction: the user manual.

While I can’t recommend this book for its educational or literary value, it is most certainly good for a giggle; those who enjoy sniffing books will also find that the book boasts a unique scent with notes of wood pulp and manifest destiny.