Like magpies, the trio shamelessly collect anecdotes to adapt.
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.
In the meantime, the coalition has been collecting anecdotes that form the basis of yesterday's report.
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.
Seventeenth-century antiquaries began to collect anecdotes about Shakespeare, but no serious life was written until 1709, when Nicholas Rowe tried to assemble information from all available sources with the aim of producing a connected narrative.
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.
