Mozrat was Austrian. Marx is actually hilarious. So is Heine, and Goethe can be funny when he wants. Nietzsche is funny. But he hated Germans. Humor is not a natural mode for them. The Brits and the French and the Jews are lots funnier. The Russians can be very funny -- Gogol, Dosteyevsky. Not Tolstoi.
--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
> Joanna wrote:
>
> > Well, I think Marx was funny.
>
> Marx was funny.
>
> > Super dry humor, but still funny. Mozart had a lot
> of humor -- Marriage of
> Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte have lots of > funny bits.
> And, if Kafka counts --
> he did write in German -- he was
> > funny too; at least, I thought "The Metamorphosis"
> was hillarious: a
> > cockroach trying to fit into a respectable German
> middle-class family.
> >
> > I admit though, I'm digging and stretching here.
>
> Yep, there are exceptions to every rule. Just
> yesterday, I saw a strapping
> midget on the street. Later, I doodled a round
> square. But all Germans are
> merry. Even Kant:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1146008,00.html
>
> -- Luke
>
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