Nothing new

Mere Comments has up a wonderful story and
tribute to the Grolier’s Book of Knowledge set. Not the New Book of
Knowledge — the old set, before the arbiters of new decided that
everything new was better than everything old. I should start haunting
flea markets and such for an old set for Zane so he can come to
Grandma’s and Grandpa’s in the summer, escape new, and spend his days
making crossbows and fashioning little bits of furniture with mortises and tenons,
discovering electric currents, and all those things boys love to do. Or
would discover they love to do, if we could pry the video games out of
their hands.