Help me, Metachat! Ok. For Halloween, help me quickly. There was a story that I read in a high school literature textbook anthology thing that was about a ne'er-do-well who screws up various jobs before getting hired as a professional mourner (due to his grave countenance). It's a sardonic little story, and I thought that iw was written by Brecht (or another German). Thing is, I can't find any mention of it and I can't remember the title (and I'm not even positive about Brecht writing it).
Can you help me? Does anyone else remember this? I don't think it was Wallace Shawn's Designated Mourner, since it was definitely a story and not a play...