![]() ![]() definition of ''protagonist,'' and the debate over whether the word can ever be used in the plural. The story has two protagonists, Winchester says - and he pauses to review the O.E.D. Stranger and ''only marginally less romantic'' than the yarn that preceded it. This ''amusing and romantic'' fiction, as Simon Winchester rightly calls it in his own elegant and scrupulous retelling, ''The Professor and the Madman,'' proves, as the truth commonly does, to be more complicated, ![]() He has been a patient here for more than 20 years. ![]() ''I am in fact the Governor of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum,'' comes the embarrassed reply. On the second floor, he introduces himself to the man he assumes must be Minor. There, he's met by a landau and taken to a forbidding brick mansion. Time and again Murray has invited Minor to visit Oxford, but in vain now Murray travels by rail 50 miles to the village of Crowthorne in Berkshire. It was first reported in 1915 by the American journalist Hayden Church and has been retold many times. Its most prolific and reliable contributors. Ne of the strangest modern literary stories is the meeting in 1896 of James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Dr. By DAVID WALTONĪ Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. One of the most esteemed contributors to the O.E.D. ![]()
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