Amid high expectations, fueled by Apple's polished marketing campaign, Siri was instantly subjected to all kinds of messy human questions, on every imaginable subject.
Set up by Ptolemy I in the third century B.C., it was meant to hold every book on every imaginable subject.
The boy's voice, as Foer creates it, is a babbling brook of hopes and questions and bits of information on every imaginable subject.
The internet may be awash with information and opinions on every imaginable subject, but for well-researched facts to accompany a specific musical selection, nothing comes close to printed sleeve notes.
So Darwin, though filled with bright ideas and keen arguments on almost every imaginable subject, was reluctant to be placed in the position of a Wise Man or Oracle, even as he became one.
In its heyday a half century ago, Foyle's, on Charing Cross Road, was known the world over as the people's bookstore, stocking five million books, mostly secondhand, on every imaginable subject on its 30 miles of shelves.
London, they point out, is awash not only with free culture in the form of free museums, art galleries and concerts but also with free lectures from experts on every imaginable subject.
News groups are freewheeling discussion groups on every imaginable subject, whose subscribers can post messages as they would on a bulletin board, to be read and commented on by others.
According to Robert Darnton, a Princeton historian, Berlin's friends would "watch him as if he were a trapeze artist, soaring through every imaginable subject, spinning, flipping, hanging by his heels and without a touch of showmanship".
He had the fashionably angular eyeglasses and ingratiating eagerness of an untenured literature professor, and he was charming and frank on every imaginable subject — our driver's lack of basic road skills, the long and eventful history of homosexuality in China, the uncanny suddenness with which old neighborhoods in Ningbo were razed and replaced.
