Так вот откуда исследователи семантических пространств берутся...

During those visits to Lake Sunapee, Osgood's grandfather played all
kinds of word games with him, feeding him rare words and then giving
him pennies to buy jelly beans when he used these words spontaneously
and correctly in sentences. On his tenth birthday CEO received a copy of
Roget Thesaurus as a present and spent hours over its contents. He re-
membered that «he had vivid dreams about multicolored, jelly-bean-like,
word-points distributed in clusters all about an endless space.» During
weekend visits to his father's home, CEO picked up his first hobby in de-
vouring all of the fantasy, horror, and science fiction literature during
long morning hours in the attic while everyone else was asleep.

Оригинальная запись в блоге Волохонского:
Так вот откуда исследователи семантических пространств берутся....