Senses of Humor (was RE: RES: Korea's blessing)

James Baird jlbaird3 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 27 21:36:19 PDT 2000



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> Book Review
> The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern
> America
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I dunno - I'll stick with Twain on this one:

"Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them- and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon- laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug,- push it a little- crowd it a little- weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand."

Jim Baird

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