There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook au…

Bill Bryson
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There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting. ✨ Bill Bryson (2014). A Short History of Nearly Everything, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc
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