Dr. Seuss, German humor, and kindred matters
Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Reflections on Jun 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
The man who became world-famous as plain Dr. Seuss, fundamentally a melancholy man who like most “humorists” took an essentially baleful view of the human condition, entered this vale of tears with the resoundingly German name Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts. Both father and grandfather, obviously of German origin, had worked in Springfield as [...]
