“I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say. Apparently the author intends it to be funny— possibly even satire—but it is really not funny on any intellectual level. From your long publishing experience you will know that it is less disastrous to turn down a work of genius than to turn down talented mediocrities.” Regarding Joseph Heller, Catch-22 “Too different from the other [books for] juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.” To Dr. Seuss for And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street “It does not seem to us that.
