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Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
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Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or perhaps a gentleman thief who stole them from the original thief and returned them!
Maybe he was a gentleman thief who stole the notes, held on to them for 20 years, and then as he approached retirement realized he needed to do one last gig -- stealing our hearts. But anonymously, by unstealing the notes.
Maybe he stole them to protect them from another plot to steal them for profit. After a 20 year saga, he finally triumphed over his adversary and returned them to their rightful owner.
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#13I had to read this line in the article twice:
"Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next two decades..."
Two decades :)
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#14sounds like something Mark Hoffman would do
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe he was a gentleman thief who stole the notes, held on to them for 20 years, and then as he approached retirement realized he needed to do one last gig -- stealing our hearts. But anonymously, by unstealing the notes.
Maybe he stole them to protect them from another plot to steal them for profit. After a 20 year saga, he finally triumphed over his adversary and returned them to their rightful owner.
We need to stop please, or we're gonna give enough material for another National Treasure :P !
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe he stole them to protect them from another plot to steal them for profit. After a 20 year saga, he finally triumphed over his adversary and returned them to their rightful owner.
We need to stop please, or we're gonna give enough material for another National Treasure :P !
Yeah true. Though, better than the alternate theory that they were just returned to the wrong shelf I guess..
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
We need to stop please, or we're gonna give enough material for another National Treasure :P !
Yeah true. Though, better than the alternate theory that they were just returned to the wrong shelf I guess..
And there's the true crime, somebody failed to use the Dewey Decimal system!
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#18I had to read this line in the article twice: "Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next two decades..." Two decades :)
I can’t imagine being the individual that believed they had misplaced them.
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#19I had to read this line in the article twice: "Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next two decades..." Two decades :)
I can’t imagine being the individual that believed they had misplaced them.
I've met someone who, conversely, misplaced a million dollars' worth of original Borges short story manuscripts and thought they had been stolen. (Fortunately, they hadn't been!)
Re: Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
#20The resolution here:
Librarian:
Happy Easter
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