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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

The above quotation is taken from "The Mysterious Stranger."  Has 
anyone read the story?

Yoshie