Thurber Tonight: "Pythagoras and the Ladder" from "Let Your Mind Alone!"

"Happy living, [Professor Pitkin] confidently asserted, could be attained by at least six or seven people out of every ten, but he figured that not more than one person in a thousand was actually attaining it."

-- from "Pythagoras and the Ladder,"
the first piece in the "Let Your Mind Alone!" series

by Ken

In this last week I think we'll try to fill some gaps and tie up some loose ends. For example, in Let Your Mind Alone! and other more or less inspirational pieces, from the "Let Your Mind Alone!" series I plucked out two pieces I especially love, "Destructive Forces in Life" (remember that infamous joker Burt Scursey?) and "Anodines for Anxiety." I regret having skipped over the first piece, "Pythagoras and the Ladder," in which Thurber explained the premise of the series. So tonight let's plug that gap.


FOR "PYTHAGORAS AND THE LADDER," CLICK HERE

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

2. "Destructive Forces in Life"
6. "Anodynes for Anxieties"

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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