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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Another reccie from Dave.

From what he's told me of it, it sounds absolute fascinating.

I'm looking forward to reading it soon.

I think I might like this one :)

Yep, thought of you straight away.

I've made a note of it too.

Looks like a fine example of nominative determinism too.

What the heck is nominative determinism?

It's like a man called Divine becoming a vicar. The best one I knew was a bloke called Mr Broom who ran our council's cleaning contracts.

Its when you are determined to nomnomnom something!

I like GL's definition.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "What the heck is nominative determinism?"

It used to be a thing - maybe still is - I first saw in the New Scientist magazine, where - like Kath says - a person's name seems apt for their job.
Mr Bury the funeral director - that sort of thing.
Or even someone called Pollan writing about plants.

But GL's is betterer.

I'll not say what my biology teacher was called.

My primary school headteacher was Mr Caine. One of the class teachers was Mr Payne. Yeah, we called them 'Cause and Effect.'