Thurber Tonight: "The Case for the Daydreamer" from "Let Your Mind Alone!"

"In fifteen minutes the average child whose parents are at a party can make enough flat statements of fact about one's personal appearance and ask enough pointed questions about one's private life to send one away feeling that there is little, if any, use in going on with anything at all, let alone a trip to Italy."

-- from tonight's installment of Let Your Mind Alone!,
"The Case for the Daydreamer"

by Ken

After last night's return to Thurber's sublime 1936-37 series Let Your Mind Alone! (later gathered in one of my favorite Thurber volumes, Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces) with the opening piece, "Pythagoras and the Ladder," I thought we'd just continue right along. We've already done No. 2, "Destructive Forces in Life," so tonight let's proceed with No. 3, "The Case for the Daydreamer."


FOR "THE CASE FOR THE DAYDREAMER," CLICK HERE

Our previous coverage of the Let Your Mind Alone! series:

1. "Pythagoras and the Ladder"
2. "Destructive Forces in Life"
6. "Anodynes for Anxieties"

Tomorrow night: No. 4, "A Dozen Disciplines"

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

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