And he collects anecdotes.
The manuscript, typed laboriously with two fingers, culminates years of collecting anecdotes and esoterica.
Molina has been dutifully collecting anecdotes, photos, contracts and letters for 15 years and estimates that he has 20,000 artifacts.
They have worked out a system for everything, keeping whiskey in plastic bottles, traveling and spending next to nothing and getting everything in return, collecting anecdotes.
Mr. Kirschenbaum has collected anecdotes about people writing poetry on mainframes, using the line-editing tools programmers normally used to debug code, before the invention of PCs in the 1970s.
You'll see Billy Dosanjh's film Year Zero: Black Country, which takes an episodic short story form about early immigrant experiences in the Black Country, using reappropriated archive footage and collected anecdotes, all from the perspective of the outsider.
Even though competing volumes about Johnson had already started to appear, Boswell's book dragged on, because he had become an obsessive researcher, collecting anecdotes, chasing down letters, conducting countless interviews.
Mr. Van Dusen learned that he was a 12th-generation descendant of one of Manhattan's first few hundred settlers, the operator of a windmill where the Dutch ground grain, and he has been collecting anecdotes and artifacts about his sprawling family ever since.
He said that data like that compiled by Colonel Wirt would also be valuable for those who study workplace safety, for historians and for officers who hope to rise above collecting anecdotes to examine how insurgent and counterinsurgency forces fought each other and evolved.
