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I'm certainly looking forward to their research on die Integralen der Lebesgue. I predict that their conclusion will resemble that attained by Murray and Weiss in the sixties, namely, LÖL.
The basis of the plot is the mid-life crisis experienced by Perrin as he becomes desperate to escape his dreary life as a sales executive at Sunshine Desserts. At the end of the first series he fakes his own suicide by leaving his clothes on a beach in Dorset and running into the sea. (While this was coincidentally similar to a stunt pulled at around the same time by maverick MP John Stonehouse, neither was Nobbs inspired by Stonehouse nor Stonehouse by Reggie: the novel was written before Stonehouse's faked suicide in June 1974 but not published until 1975. The phrase "to do a Reggie Perrin" did enter the vernacular, however, no doubt assisted by the media circus that surrounded the Stonehouse affair.)
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