More Heroic Failures
Of course, some people are successful — clever, unusual
people like Einstein, Mozart, Steven Spielberg. But this
book is not for them . . .
How
badly
can
people do things, if they really try?
In
The Book of Heroic Failures
you met the world’s
worst tourist — Mr Nicholas Scotti, the man who landed
in New York and thought it was Rome.
You read about
the uselessness of Mr R. E. de Bruycker, the spy who
gave the enemy more information than he got from them.
You read about the famous Mr Philip McCutchcon, the
man with one eye and one
leg who became one of the
world’s poorest thieves.
These are some of the greatest failures of all time,
people who have been better at doing things badly than
anyone else in the world. They are more than ordinary
failures — they are heroes.
Now, in
More Heroic Failures,
you
can read more
great examples of how not to do anything right. There
are the British football players who lost 21-0 to SVW
Mainz of Germany. There is the great Norwegian, Mr
Teigan, singer of the worst
European Song Show song of
1978. And Dr Brian Richards of Deal, England, one of
the unluckiest lovers there has ever been.
Stephen Pile wrote
The Book of Heroic Failures
in 1979
and said immediately, “I will never write another book
about failures.” Soon after that,
he wrote
More Heroic
Failures.
Mr Pile decided never to become a writer many years
ago, not long before he began writing for newspapers
and wrote his first book. He lives in Richmond,
a part of
London. He once tried to live outside of London, but
failed. He is unable to do a great many things.