Speaking of walking encyclopedias, a few years ago we noted how we too often forget that even zombies were once better read than dead. A crucial example is an article in a 1905 issue of Windsor magazine, in which the first example of a "walking encyclopaedia" is technically deceased. Over the years, ravenousness for knowledge, even from beyond the grave, became equated with a base hunger for brains. Alas, it's all indicative of the "dumbing down" of popular culture.