Former employees say Ellison keeps a book on his desk about Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol warlord.
And so, when I arrived to work to find a book on my desk called Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating The Ups And Downs of BEING SINGLE Without Losing Your Mind I was feeling a little Twilight Zone-y.
Kendall pulled himself away from the window and walked back to his desk, where he picked up the book that was lying there.
There's a wooden book that unfolds into a desk lamp and a polymer incubation blanket for infants that's "on track to save 100, 000 children's lives, " according to Hatch, TechShop's spikey-white-haired CEO.
While the outcry troubled me, the terrible stories meant I could no longer ignore a book that had arrived on my desk.
" Never in my life have I heard so many prepositions, as in "Best get that book on up off of my desk.
"I actually have my boarding pass framed now, and it's sitting on my desk, right next to a little prayer book I keep with its page turned to Psalm 23, " he said.
There he is, in his office, behind his desk, with his feet up, reading a book.
For my own part, this book is now a permanent fixture at my desk so I can refresh myself on physics concepts that get discussed in papers that I read.
"You're the person I love most, and I don't mean sex, " said Omar Sharif, Ms. Streisand's co-star in "Funny Girl, " in a video from his apartment, where a red book of suduku puzzles rested casually on his desk.
Born in 1791, Faraday started out as an apprentice book-binder, reading everything that passed across his desk.
So our workplace has introduced a "flexible desking" system - no one has their own desk anymore (so no personalisation possible), and we have to book our desks in advance.
At night he worked at the computer desk in the bedroom, before getting into bed and reading a few pages of the book on his nightstand.
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He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat with a book taken from the library, copied all its pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked to passersby like the honest pages of business.
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