The best leads, anywhere:
A new collection of essays by Ralph Caplan...If brevity is the soul of wit, Caplan is master of both. Each of the short essays in Cracking the Whip starts out so elegantly that we thought it would be interesting to take the first bits—the leads—and share them with you here. But the problem is that it was both hard to choose and hard to make any progress. If you read the first paragraph, you're invariably sucked into the whole thing. Heck, even his first sentences deliver the goods. How's this one, from a Circumstantial Evidence column, dated Jan/Feb 1988: "I have never seen a mortician who did not enjoy his work or a mover who did."
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