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James Thurber. Alarms and Diversions
Alarms and Diversions
Table of Contents
Foreword
The Ladies of Orlon
The First Time I Saw Paris
The Psychosemanticist. Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber
It’s Your Mother
Two O’Clock at the Metropole
Get Thee to a Monastery
A Holiday Ramble
“There’s Something Out There!”
The Moribundant Life, or, Grow. Old Along with Whom?
Merry Christmas
A Gallery of Drawings
File and Forget
A Sort of Genius
The Waters of the Moon
Exhibit X
A New Natural History
A Final Note on Chanda Bell (After reading two or three literary memorials, to this. or that lamented talent, written by one critic or another)
There’s a Time for Flags (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)
Very truly yours,
Am Not I Your Rosalind?
The French Far West
The Masculine Approach
A Friend to Alexander
The Figgerin’ of Aunt Wilma
Mr. Punch
The White Rabbit Caper (As the boys who turn out the mystery programs on the air. might write a story for children)
My Own Ten Rules for a. Happy Marriage
The Race of Life. A PARABLE
The Interview
Daguerreotype of a Lady
A Call on Mrs. Forrester (After rereading, in my middle years, Willa Cather’s “A Lost Lady” and Henry James’ “The Ambassadors”)
There’s No Place Like Home
The Lady on the Bookcase
A Miscellany
Do You Want to Make Something. Out of It? Or, if you put an “O” on “Understo,” you’ll ruin my “Thunderstorm”
The Whip-poor-will
The Ordeal of Mr. Matthews
Lavender with a Difference
THE LAST FLOWER. A PARABLE IN PICTURES
