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...BECOME EXTINCT-Will Cuppy, with illustrations by William Steig -Farrar & Rinehart...
...makes even footnotes funny published his first book in ten years last week. Will Cuppy followed up How to Be a Hermit and How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes with the logically inevitable How to Become Extinct. No one has ever made out a better case...
...Becoming extinct has its compensations," Cuppy says in recounting how he himself became extinct on Aug. 23, 1934. "It's a good deal like beating the game. I would go so far as to say that becoming extinct is the perfect answer to everything and I defy anybody to think of a better. Other solutions are mere palliatives, just a bunch of loose ends, leaving the central problem untouched...
...that Author Cuppy is an escapist. Even extinct he is willing to tackle anything from "Do Fish Think, Really?" to "Are the Insects Winning?", often with disquieting results. He even attacks the bloated reputation of Aristotle, though granting that Aristotle "of course, was frequently right, for it is almost impossible, under the laws of chance, to be wrong all the time. Thanks to him we know that the Weasel does not bring forth its young by the mouth, as held by Anaxagoras. He also denied that Hyenas change their sex every year. He was only guessing, but it sounds like...
...size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...