Ann Coulter : Human Document

An Investigation Into the Hidden Subtexts of a Public Intellectual's Writings, Using the Techniques of Tom Phillips' "A Humument"

Human Document

from the Century Dictionary V & VI

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry by Basil Bunting

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry

Muzzle and jowl and beastly brow,

bilious glaring eyes, tufted ears,

recidivous criminality in the slouch,

—This is not the latest absconding bankrupt

but a ‘beautiful’ tiger imported at great expense from

Kuala Lumpur.

7 photographers, 4 black-and-white artists and an R.A.

are taking his profitable likeness;

28 reporters and an essayist

are writing him up.

Sundry ladies think he is a darling

especially at mealtimes, observing

that a firm near the docks advertises replicas

fullgrown on approval for easy cash payments.

♂Felis Tigris (Straits Settlements)(Bobo) takes exercise

up and down his cage before feeding

in a stench of excrements of great cats

indifferent to beauty or brutality.

He is said to have eaten several persons

but of course you can never be quite sure of these things.

illustration from

Laurence Chaves

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Published by Illustrated Editions company ~ 1932

Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an Opium-Eater

short Yale alumni bio of Sanskrit scholar & Century Dictionary editor William Dwight Whitney (1827–94)

The Century Dictionary Online in DjVu

from the Century Dictionary IV & V