Narwhal
On the farm we had two books the history of the United States and an unabridged dictionary. 1 read that dictionary from A to Z, repeatedly. And I had a tremendous vocabulary. Much later, while I was lecturing in Montana, a doctor invited me to spend an evening at his home. During the course of the evening he brought out a very peculiar spiral-shaped object and asked, Do you know what that is I said, Yes, it's a narwhal tusk. He said, You're the first person who has even looked at that and...