You Can't be Too Careful - Softcover

Jones, David Pryce-

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563051567 ISBN 13: 9781563051562

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 1992

Synopsis

A heavy drinker decides to cut down his alcohol intake-and dies of a heart attack caused by alcohol withdrawl. Then there's the murderer who was accidentally electrocuted sitting on his prison cell's steel toilet--just after escaping the electric chair on appeal. You can't be too careful, not in a universe that began with a random Big Bang and whose only certainty is accident. A collection of cautionary tales gathered for years by David Pryce-Jones and illustrated with characteristic wit and precision by Pierre Le-Tan, these are succinct items whose very matter-of-factness seems to reinforce the utterly bewildering nature of life and death, the unlikely, improbable, unexpected way in which lives are swallowed up-this is the human comedy as one-liners, each with a wondrous and terrifying grain of truth about our existence.

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From the Back Cover:

FALLING FLOWERPOTS, SLIPPERY SOCKS, THE FATAL TOOTHPICK . . . ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

"You can't be too careful." It's the last true maxim for a world that began with a random Big Bang and whose only certainty is accident. If you don't believe it, consider what happened to faith-healer Alan N., who died after tripping over his healing stool. Or Mrs. B., drowned while trying to save the goldfish in her frozen pond. Collected here are dozens of reminders of fate's unfathomable purpose-glimpses of the wonderful and terrifying human comedy, each revealing an unexpected truth about our existence.

Synopsis:

A collection of newspaper accounts recording untimely deaths from unlikely causes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1563051567
• ISBN 13: 9781563051562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Le-Tan Pierre