800 JKS - Mark Francis Johnson

Memory plays tricks, but does it joke? In 800 JKS, a deceased gentleman who collected circus memorabilia endeavours to answer this question, unaware that the real difficulty lies in determining how to pose it. His method, no less than his failure, will be familiar to anyone who habitually asks questions formed to preclude the possibility of an unfunny answer. A book for everybody, then; but a book too late to help us. That is the 800th joke.