![]() These passages faithfully capture the flavor of Jacobs's interminable book: corny, juvenile, smug, tired. The loser brother, the one Mom didn't talk about too much. Seems he was sort of the Frank Stallone of ancient Judaism. ![]() I move on to Aaron, the brother of Moses. No doubt he got more takers than if he'd gone with something more accurate, like Bleakland or Depressingland or Youllstarveland." He called his new home Greenland in order to entice more people to join him there. Turns out the country's name was coined by an Eric the Red, who had been banished from Iceland in 982 A.D. ![]() I've always wondered why Greenland - which is basically a massive sheet of white ice - is called Greenland. To achieve his goal, and fulfill his book contract, Jacobs would read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from cover to cover - or, at least, claim to have done so - and then write a memoir containing ostensibly hilarious entries like this: ![]() Jacobs, a senior editor at Esquire, set out to become the smartest man in the world, an ambition that meshed poorly with his skills set. The KNOW-IT-ALL One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. ![]()
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