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movies misfortune and the making of roget s thesaurus later bloomer skip to content later bloomer about artists athletes explorers writers women essays about artists athletes explorers writers women essays movies misfortune and the making of roget s thesaurus peter mark roget graduated from medical school at 19 but the thesaurus that bears his name was his true late blooming passion the man is not wholly evil he has a thesaurus in his cabin captain hook as described by j m barrie in peter pan at 14 he went to university and by age 19 he d earned his medical degree you might call him a georgian era doogie howser he went on to teach physiology at the university of london helped found manchester medical school invented a new type of slide rule designed a pocket chess board and arguably invented the first movie camera but perhaps his greatest accomplishment was a list maybe you ve heard of it roget s thesaurus i can t write in my house i take a hotel room and ask them to take everything off the walls so there s me the bible roget s thesaurus and some good dry sherry and i m at work by 6 30 maya angelou strictly speaking peter mark roget 1779 1869 doesn t qualify as a late bloomer he was a precocious scholar who began his career while in his teens and went on to pursue several positions in medicine and science at age 55 roget wrote a paper entitled explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures in it he described an odd phenomena that if a person observes a moving wheel through a series of vertical slits such as a picket fence the spokes of the wheel seem to curve roget devised a shutter and aperture device to study this observation many consider it a movie camera prototype but it was when roget retired from medicine in 1840 to pursue his true passion the classification of words through their synonyms and antonyms that he achieved his ultimate accomplishment roget published his thesaurus in 1853 at age 74 roget s thesaurus is so comprehensive and useful that during the 1960s 70s and even the 80s two reference volumes could be found on every student bookshelf in america webster s dictionary and roget s thesaurus his list was his life s work his list roget s thesaurus has helped millions of people across more than a hundred years and it may have saved his life a man beset by heartbreak although obviously accomplished roget experienced overwhelming heartbreak in his life his father died of tuberculosis when he was four his mother suffered from paranoia often accusing the servants of plotting against her both roget s sister and daughter experienced mental breakdowns his wife 16 years his junior died of cancer at age 38 his favorite uncle and surrogate father slit his own throat w hile roget fought to take the knife from him to cope with this litany of tragedy roget developed an abhorrence of dirt and disorder and an obsession with lists and counting he showed the hallmarks of what we today call obsessive compulsive disorder not to mention depression no wonder and so in his biography of roget the man who made lists joshua kendall concludes that the thesaurus did much more for roget than for its millions of users across the centuries the ultimate book of lists became his salvation and it enabled roget to live a vibrant life in the face of overwhelming loss anxiety and despair twenty eight editions of the thesaurus were published during roget s lifetime he died at age 90 obsession served him well and roget s later blooming has served all of us well too later bloomer lessons from peter mark roget never discount your passion because it seems too strange or too simple roget s lists have benefitted millions we each have a personal battle that defines us later blooming involves unearthing a creative individual strategy that increasingly leads us beyond coping into the sublime sources the man who made lists love death madness and the creation of roget s thesaurus by joshua kendall new york times book review of joshua kendall s the man who made lists by thomas mallon the myth of persistence of vision revisited journal of film and video vol 45 no 1 spring 1993 3 12 later bloomer is no longer publishing please enjoy the archives facebook f instagram artists explorers writers women legal stuff artists explorers writers women legal stuff search