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Young lecturer Tristram has a problemif only he could remember what it was and how he got himself entangled in it. A laugh-out-loud book of misadventures, misunderstandings, muddles, mix-ups, and spoonerisms. CouldTristram's problembe his abject failure in the dating game due to his inability to keep his girlfriends' names straight? Maybe his tangles with the law, inadvertently mugging a jogger and mistakenly being arrested for bank-robbery? Or perhaps, the huge, hulking fury of a man who clearly thinks that Tristram has insulted him in some mysterious way? What is abundantly clear is the cause of all these woesdebilitating and chronic absentmindedness that, try as he might, Tristram just cannot overcome. As his hilarious predicaments become ever more disastrous, Tristram finds solace in compiling his ownbook, a record of the absentminded excesses of historical among them Einstein, Edison, Beethoven, and the Rev W. A. Spooner, father of the Spoonerism, who on one occasion proposed a loyal toast to "the queer old dean," Queen Victoria. Anybody who has politely thanked a machine for issuing a ticket, asked directions from a mannequin in a department store, wheeled off someone else'sc

Author

Benedict Nightingale

Publisher

JR Books; JR Books Ltd

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781906779931

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities