Homer’s Odyssey contained the earliest instance of a plot flashback.
Xu Shen’s Explaining Words, Analyzing Characters - 100 A.D. - is the first dictionary.
Harn Darn Jun’s Forest of Jokes - 200 A.D.. - is the first joke book.
The Memoirs of Aratus of Sicyon - 213 B.C. - is the first autobiography.
The longest word that The Bard ever used is: honoroficabilitudinitatibus.
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ReplyDeleteYour honoroficabilitudinitatibus has a third O in it. Wikipedia says it's spelled: Honorificabilitudinitatibus. Not picking nits ... just letting you know I read your posts ... and I had to look up the pronunciation ...
As my mother was prone (sic) to say, "I sit corrected !"