"If your mind needs phosphorus, try \' Trivia , \' by Logan Pearsall Smith .
The third in a new collection of classic books inspired by Roger Mifflin, owner of Morley\'s Haunted Bookshop , Trivia is an early 20th century gem..
Smith\'s aphorisms are anything but trivial; alternately whimsical and insightful and heartbreaking, they are popcorn-sized glimpses into the human condition.
But it has a cohort of its own devotees and fanatics, and since its publication in 1917 it has become a sort of password in a secret brotherhood," wrote Christopher Morley in his book Modern Essays about this hard-to-categorize collection of aphorisms that, through its title, introduced a word into the English language. - Roger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop "It would be extravagant to claim that Pearsall Smith\'s Trivia , the remarkable little book from which these miniature essays are extracted, is well known: it is too daintily, fragile and absurd and sophisticated to appeal to a very large public. "If your mind needs phosphorus, try \' Trivia , \' by Logan Pearsall Smith
