"This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have beieved it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant." Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance Continue reading Almanac: Nero Wolfe on pessimism at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM on December 18, 2020