tragi-comedians

Updated: July 1, 2026

But, Lord, that cast-iron man had never any bookish bowels of compassion or political either for the matter of that! so that finally I gave up fiction and resigned myself to the humble category of the crushed tragi-comedians of literature, who inevitably drift into journalism. Thus my destiny has been casual.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry, Complete: An Autobiography

But, Lord, that cast-iron man had never any bookish bowels of compassion or political either for the matter of that! so that finally I gave up fiction and resigned myself to the humble category of the crushed tragi-comedians of literature, who inevitably drift into journalism. Thus my destiny has been casual.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry (Volume 1): An Autobiography