If there is love, anything is possible - the story behind Oxford Dictionaries

Colt 2022-03-23 09:02:47

Professor James Murray, a man of various languages ​​with no university degree, was hired as the lead English dictionary editor at Oxford University. He set up a five-year plan to find 1,000 volunteers to complete the Oxford Dictionaries, and distributed leaflets. The madman William Miner used to be a military doctor with high literacy in all aspects. He was traumatized by hurting a soldier, Dorandy. Xia Suren's wife and five children, Mina was placed in a mental hospital and continued to receive treatment. In the mental hospital, he continued to have hallucinations and was hunted down. In order to alleviate the pain, he became a volunteer after receiving the flyer and started to work, immersed in writing work, solved a big problem for the professor, the progress was greatly improved, and the professor was recognized by his peers as Dr. Mersey. The amateur wife refused the doctor's help after her husband's death and preferred to be a prostitute. In the end, she accepted the help for the sake of the child, and agreed to accept Mina to teach her to read. In the end, the two fell in love. Mina became ill because of the guilt of possessing the victim's beloved. . After receiving treatment, he got rigidity, lost his soul, and regained his soul with the help of an amateur wife. At the same time, the professor also visited the doctor in the prison, and the two met late. In the end, Murray and his assistant Freddie met with Prime Minister Churchill to rescue Miner from the mental hospital and obtained the authorization to compile the Oxford Dictionary for life. Miner was convicted of schizophrenia after returning to the United States.

At first I always wondered what the connection between professors and lunatics had to do with Oxford Dictionaries connecting the two.

Sometimes we push people away, just when we crave a hug.

Professor Mersey is also a lunatic, crazy about his work. Crazy Miner is also a professor, brilliant and suffering.

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The Professor and the Madman quotes

  • James Murray: Who's she?

    Dr. William Chester Minor: The impossible.

    James Murray: The more impossible, the greater the love.

    Dr. William Chester Minor: Do you truly believe that? My heart is so sick.

    James Murray: Well... what I know of love is that the sickness often becomes the cure.

  • Ada Murray: Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most need to be resisted.