the short wanderer

Self-isolation. Who would have ever thought such concept that is presumably very alien to the extroverts - yet very close to introverts on the other hand - would be a daily mantra to the global citizen today? I came across a post on social media on a list of people who had done amazing contribution to the world during their time of isolation. One name keeps on coming up: William Shakespeare. Many of you might have also seen the plague meme , but to what extent the quarantine output is true, I'll leave it to The Guardian  to dwell on that. That said, I am not here to talk about the world-renowned English poet tho. This post is then, inspired by  the story of Dr William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who was of a huge assistance to Sir James Murray in the 1800s, which the show 'The Professor and the Madman' is based upon. Long story short, Sir James Murray was the man who initiated the work on compiling entries for the very first Oxford English Dictionary