I Can't Bring Myself to Pit James Lileks . . . But . . .

IIRC, Thruber was a pretty belligerent cus of a man, who, as he was going more and more blind, become more and more ornery to his family. Again, IIRC (it has been awhile since I read his biography), he developed a pretty bad drinking problem. Old, alcoholic, blind men are not known to be a barrel of laughs.

Thank you, plnnr.