Watts essay: the little man

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 21:15, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> >  On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 17:10, pynchonoid wrote:
> >
> > > ...from James Wolcott's blog yesterday:
> > >
> > > [...] The allusion in "Tweet Smell of Success" to "Reichian" refers
> > > not to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, but Wilhelm Reich,
> > > renegade psychotherapist and founder of the Orgone Institute, who
> > > in his 1948 book Listlen, Little Man! addressed the reader:
> >
> >
> >  At least it wasn't the Third Reich.
> 
> You mean Harpo Reich?
> 
> - Joe

Zeppo was the big guy? Was Harpo little?

There used to be a novel around here called "Little Man, What Now?"
which was a translation of a German novel of I assume an equivalent
name. About a little guy struggling to survive in the period just before
Hitler became Reichschancellor. The American edition was published in
1933. Think it might have been a "bestseller" in both countries. People
still bought books even in those terrible years. Was part of a bunch of
books I sort of inherited. Wish I could find it.

Unswerving punctuality of chance