Book of heroic failures pdf

The play, a mystery farce, relates the adventures of Snooks and Howie Keene, Nurse Dagmar, Stinky Holloway and others trapped together one excellent stormy night at the Wild Moose Lodge, a guesthouse in the Adirondack Mountains. Several murders take place, Stinky tries to sleep with his mother and a man in a moose costume is assaulted by a bandage-wrapped quadriplegic.

There is a thunderclap. The curtain rises on a hunting lodge which is attractively festooned with stuffed moose heads. A scantily clad Snooks Keene sings in an off-key screech. She is accompanied by her blind husband pounding away on his electric organ until the plug is pulled out by the resident caretaker, Joe Buffalo Dance, who wears Indian war paint but speaks with an Irish brogue. She arrives with her husband Sidney, the heavily bandaged quadriplegic, who is confined to a wheelchair.

His attendant, Nurse Dagmar, wears revealing black satin, barks like a Nazi and whenever possible leaves her patient out in the rain.

In addition to her son Stinky, a drug-crazed Oedipal hippie, Mrs Holloway has a young daughter called Gay, who is permanently in a party dress. Gross me out! Just before the interval Stinky gets out a deck of cards to give the actors, if not the audience, something to do. The lights go out mid-game and the first of several inexplicable murders is committed.

As the young girl collapses to the floor and croaks in the middle of a Shirley Temple tap-dancing routine, her mother breaks into laughter and applause. The leading lady was supposed to be making her comeback after more than forty years away from the Broadway stage, but she dropped out after the first preview.

These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success 'I'm a winner, Lord Sugar' to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book.

If you own the copyright to this book and it is wrongfully on our website, we offer a simple DMCA procedure to remove your content from our site. Start by pressing the button below! The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures. Read more. The Book of Ultimate Truths. The Not Terribly Good Cl. The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain Western civilization is obsessed with success, even though most of us have a genuine flair for the exact opposite. To get into the Club you had to be not terribly good at something and preferably downright awful.

Members addressed the Club on the things they did worst or couldnt do at all. Libraries near you: WorldCat. The incomplete book of failures First published in Subjects Anecdotes, facetiae, satire , Failure Psychology , Humor. Edition Notes American ed. Community Reviews 0 Feedback? Loading Related Books. February 14, October 24, Edited by ImportBot. August 17, April 30, December 10,