![]() I just finished re-reading The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by the late Will Cuppy. This is a hilarious look at the goings on of various historical figures doing the things that put them in the history books. You have to be familiar with world history to get the jokes. The footnotes can be helpful, but often they amp up the humor and you won't get that either. Still worth reading. I read some more about Will Cuppy, since he sounds like he was someone worth knowing. Unfortunately that may have been difficult for anyone who tried, since he was something of a hermit - and in fact he also wrote How to Be a Hermit, which is next on my reading list if I can run down a copy somewhere. I did find the Kindle version of How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes, with introduction by P.G. Wodehouse. This sounds like actionable information that we all should have, especially since Amazon describes the book as "a survey of life on earth, in all its variety and pageantry, by a very annoyed humorist." My kind of guy. I wonder what he would have made of the pandemic. Many of us curmudgeonly types viewed it as a welcome excuse to avoid everybody, but after a while it can be too much of a good thing. Since Cuppy seems to have made a vocation of living like a hermit, even in a New York City apartment, I want to know how he did it and still managed to keep his sanity. Perhaps he didn't, since Wikipedia informs us that "Cuppy's last years were marked by poor physical health and increasing depression." Praise the Lord and pass the Paxlovid, I guess. Comments are closed.
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