Here is something to consider, as you down cup after cup: “If you’ve never met a student from the University of Chicago, I’ll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says: ‘This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?’ And eventually he dies of thirst.” --Quip of alumnus Shelley Berman, quoted in his obituary in today’s New York Times.
I would add, “Not while there’s still coffee in the pot.”
Berman was also quoted as saying that his humor was sometimes so oblique that he himself couldn’t quite follow it. Where did he get that habit, I wonder?