(Smokingpipes.com) Widely considered the foremost humorist of the 20th century, James Thurber (1894-1961) often portrayed bemused protagonists clumsily navigating the complexity of modern life through incomprehension, fantasy, and defeated acceptance. Thurber's writings and drawings encapsulate those odd but universal feelings of being out of phase with the rest of humanity, and his characters, while hilarious, display just enough reality to be recognizably similar to ourselves or someone we've known. Continued
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