oddments

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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2019

The “bricoleur addresses himself to a collection of oddments left over from human endeavours”, said Lévi-Strauss, and his motto, according to the critic Gérard Genette, is: “That might always come in handy.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2016

The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2015

There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander