Okay, picture this: Two very old guys, friends since college more than fifty years ago, decide to write a book about how jokes illuminate philosophical ideas.
They write and rewrite the whole deal on speculation over the course of a year or more. Two agents send it out to forty publishers and get rejections from every one of them, with kind notes saying it’s fascinating, but nobody would buy it.
The 41st (Abrams Books) says, What the hell, we’ll give it a try; they print a modest amount and cross their fingers.
A few weeks later, the book hits th
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