I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?
Charles Bukowski wrote maybe the most beautiful paean to the fact of the telephone book:
https://poemsdaily.livejournal.com/123676.html