title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne : A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words
author:  Simon Winchester 
description: The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
zlib_text: Bad Medicine
  
  by Robert Sheckley
  
  On May 2, 2103, Elwood Caswell walked rapidly down Broadway with a loaded
  revolver hidden in his coat pocket. He didn't want to use the weapon, but
  feared he might anyhow. This was a justifiable assumption, for Caswell was a
  homicidal maniac.
  
  It was a gentle, misty spring day and the air held the smell of rain and
  blossoming-dogwood. Caswell gripped the revolver in his sweaty right hand and
  tried to think of a single valid reason why he should not kill a man named
  Magnessen, who, the other day, had commented on how well Caswell looked.
  
  _What business was it of Magnessen's how he looked? Damned busybodies, always
  spoiling things_ _for everybody.…_
  
  Caswell was a choleric little man with fierce red eyes, bulldog jowls and
  ginger-red hair. He was the sort you would expect to find perched on a
  detergent box, orating to a crowd of lunching businessmen and amused students,
  shouting, "Mars for the Martians, Venus for the Venusians!"
  
  But in truth, Caswell w