Quote of the Day inspired by the Collyer brothers
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:59AM As I was talking about my domain name bulimia with a colleague, the latter mentioned that instead of bulimia, I should use the word hoarding, and I was like: "what?" which led him to introduce me to the the Collyer Brothers with the help of Wikipedia...
The New York Times on March 26, 1947 wrote:
There is, admittedly, something unattractive about the avidity with which society now pores over every detail the Collyer brothers vigorously withheld from public scrutiny... It is almost as though society were taking revenge upon the brothers for daring to cut the thread that binds man to his fellows.
Collyer Brothers,
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