[Ads-l] HDAS spotted

[Bill Mullins]

Writer Neil Gaiman has been in the news lately (apparently, he has trouble keeping his rocket in his pocket).  I ran across a photo of him in his writing office from a few years ago, and sitting there on his shelves are Vols. 1 & 2 of Jonathan Lighter's "Historical Dictionary of American Slang."

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/neil-gaiman-writers-office-6.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1&resize=910%2C511

If the photo was a little sharper, I bet I'd recognize a few other of the books (I know the author of the two-volume set at top, "The Magic of Johnny Thompson," from a shared interest in magic).

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