Letters from a Nut

When I was a much younger man, I heard about a book about letters a mysterious man wrote to various people. One was to a physicist asking why if he could lift more than he and a chair weighed why he couldn’t just fly around the room. I sometimes thought about that book.

I finally read it. Sometimes thinking about a book is a much better experience than reading it. Some yucks there were, but it was not — as advertised — the kind of book that would make me laugh so hard blood would squirt from my eyes.

Prank correspondence wasn’t perfected until a decade later by David Thorne.