Will Cuppy Tonight: "The Java Man" from "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes"

Illustration by Jacks

"The Java Man had immense supraorbital ridges of solid bone and was conscious in spots. Does that remind you of anyone?"

-- from Will Cuppy's "The Java Man"

by Ken

As promised last night, when we had most of the preface from How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, tonight we have the first piece, "The Java Man," of the seven that make up the book's first section, "Memoir of the Jukes Family, or Where We Come In." I'm not sure the Jukes Family reference will be as familiar as it once was, so we're going to see to that, then proceed with "Java Man."


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THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, BOB AND RAY, E. B. WHITE, JEAN SHEPHERD, and PERELMAN TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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