Lana Citron
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However, dictionaries cover a multitude of subjects: Quotations, Music, Opera, History, Art and Artists, Literature, Archaeology, Biography (as in the Dictionary of National Biography) and more technical subjects such as those used by crossword solvers or Scrabble players. Poets, of course, have recourse to several Rhyming Dictionaries. My bias towards the humanities shows clearly here. I am sure there are scientific dictionaries, but I have never had cause to try and find any of them.
The point is that whatever our interests we all need a reference work at some point or other in our lives. Some people will never turn a reference page once they have left school. Others will be forever buried in the never ending possibilities that these books offer.
I think A Compendium of Kisses should be classified as a work of reference. In its 219 pages it provides a seemingly endless collection of quotations about, and commentaries on, kissing. It is divided into four sections: The Anatomy of a Kiss; The Nature and Geography of a Kiss; The History of Kissing; and Cultural Kisses. These cover every aspect of kissing that you could imagine and many that you never thought were possible. This book is fascinating to dip into and wander in the pages from time to time, a true reference book. Fortunately, it is not as long as Martin Von Kemp’s Opus Historicum de Osculis (roughly translated as a History of Kissing). It was published in Frankfurt in 1680 and consists of over 1,000 pages of excerpts to form an encyclopaedic work on the subject. This is an entertaining and informative book.… (mais)