>>> The book is about the English language.
>>> On the cover was was an illustration with a river and
>>> a bridge ( and a lot more imagery ).
>>> The illustration has at least 30 visual puns embedded in it.

> Imagine you got some knowledge about the book here, how would you deal
> with it, that's the question.

To be or not to be =96 THAT is the question! **

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
 And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep no more =96 and by a sleep
to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks* that
flesh is heir to =96 =91tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die,
to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in
that sleep of death what dreams may come. Or visual puns?

A brief Gargoyling produceth not, with any certainly, the literature
on which your heart was bent, but surely turneth up much else which
made the search, if not quite worthy of the time, at least a way to
wile away the hours which otherwise may rather have been wasted on
mere work, or other lesser things. Failing the finding of the work you
seek my I adventure to instead suggest a tome of totally different
bent which, none the less, dispelleth visions which have long been
cast by others, and in its many pages provides fresh light on things
long past which others have described/. To whit - "A Sailors Odyssey",
not of Aeolian realm but by the (no doubt long since late) one
Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. A goodly read, I wot.


           R

* Richter 5 or more.

** But, in fact, the knowing of some long elusive fact can be reason
in itself for knowing, or wanting to***. Why should the reason for the
desire for knowing affect the question? - the more so if the one who
wants to know re the knowing is unlikely, or less, either to
contribute the desired knowledge or attempt to do so? (That question
is not, entirely, rhetorical. There may be reason enough for wanting
to know re the reason to know - eg only - the apparent noising up of a
channel or use of bandwidth (mental or digital) may be the more
tolerable if the  reason accords well with those who observe or
tolerate it. As us of their mental bandwidth in OT is wholly at the
discretion of the recipient this is not liable in most cases to
constitute a valid reason. No?

*** I, for many years, wanted to know the source of the line "At last,
my arm is whole again" - which I heard as part of a snatch of a TV
program which had a woman looking on and a man  holding his arm
triumphantly above his head with something in his hand which was
indistinct. I asked widely and searched diligently but, this being
early in the life of the internet, I never found it. Even our most
august film critic did not know. And then, in the fullness of time,
Andrew Lloyd Webber made it suitably famous - it's the returned razors
scene from "Sweeney Todd****, the demon barber of Fleet Street". Of
course. Apart from the line having become a favourite of mine wrt
holding a camera, knowing this fact made no difference to me, and I
have done nothing useful with it. I have not seen  Webber's play
(except short extracts from that scene :-) ) but it filled a hole in
my wanting to knowerey.
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd

**** Which name, interestingly, resulted in the Cockney rhyming slang
for Scotland Yard's Flying Squad.
"Sweeney Todd - Flying Squad" - aka "The Sweeney".
                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Squad

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