I did a search in the library catalog to make sure that it was truly lost and rather than typing in the ENTIRE title, I just typed "the last man who knew everything" and pressed Enter.
Turns out there was more than one last man who knew everything.
My search told me that there were THREE books with the title "the last man who knew everything." These books are:
1) The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young (the book I was trying to replace)
2) Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
3) Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Now, if you ask me, there should only be one person with the title of "the last man to know everything." I think the authors should have to go back and rename the books like "the second to last man who knew everything" and so on. And I'm pretty sure that they were being very gracious in saying EVERYTHING, too. I mean, when I looked up Joseph Leidy in Wikipedia, it only mentioned that he was into paleontology, anatomy, and parasitology. Those are interesting fields, but what about stuff like nunchuck skills, bow staff skills, and computer hacking skills? Don't those count as some part of everything?
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Does the library have a book called "The First Man Who Knew Nothing"? That would be kind of cool.....
Haha!
(The "Haha!" was to Greg's comment.)
Also, I think it would be rather exhaustive and somewhat irrelevant to know everything nowadays. But I guess it could be cool.
Umm... unless you were God. Then it would be entirely relevant.
Okay I'm done commenting now.
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