list maker and classifier, and in this new biography, "The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of 'Roget's Thesaurus,' " Joshua Kendall suggests--with something like obsessive frequency--that the habit was a kind of bulwark shoring him up against depression and mental instability.Madness ran in the family, at least on his mother's side.
from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms
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