Another Man Who Knits

David is the genius who writes the wonderful Upside-Down Hippopotamus. Now there is even more reason to love David.


He knits.

And he isn't one of those wussy knitters who overlooks minor errors. He demands perfection.

"The point of knitting (like the point of everything else) is to do something perfectly on the first try. If one cannot manage this, one is doomed to rip out his two rows of work and begin anew as many times as it takes, all while cursing up a storm. Later, in a darkened room, one may curl on the floor with is body tangled in an unraveled skein of yarn and weep inconsolably for all of the knitting projects that will go forever uncreated because he is a fumble-fingered loser who will never amount to anything!"