For once, Jonah, the Straggler is ahead of the curve: I gave a plug for

Raymond Smullyan’s delightful book in my September Diary on NRO and actually included one of his harder puzzles as my brainteaser for that

month.

BTW, it looks as though I shall be on the wireless Friday talking about

prime numbers–WBAI with Harry Allen, around 2:30 pm.

And by the way, Jonah, thank you for helping keep alive the name of Fatty Arbuckle–a fine American,

and a martyr to crooked lawyering and media hysteria.

Now that Derb merchandise is available I was going to suggest trading one of my T-shirts for one of yours, or Cosmo’s. Then I remembered that business with the tie in Rosemary’s Baby……