For instance, because my messages aren't packaged presentations but more conversational in nature, sometimes someone will say something that will
totally derail the discussion with some
whacky idea.
Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the «blind» grandfather driver with his seeing - eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish - Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of
whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if
totally misguided use of a Thesaurus.