From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 04:47:53 MDT
>I assume Arthur Koestler's study of humor in THE ACT OF CREATION is
>universally known?
no..
>What, no?
:-)
I'll place it in my reading queue.... Thanks.
>I briefly had a gf who was always laughing with the joy of life, but
>seemed to have no sense of humor at all.
I don't laugh like this, but I seem to have no trouble to amuse
myself. (this year, my sense of humor has evolved into a tragicomedy
of cosmic dimensions)
>By contrast, I am universally recognized as a dour and horrible
>cynic who's never been known to smile from simple pleasure (`Would
>it kill you to smile?' `Yes, I'm an Australian'), but P. J. O'Rourke
>cracks me up every time.
I have only read snippets of his writings (some made it into my
.signatures though), so far.
I had this thought in the middle of the night last night, though.
Aspects of my funny bone seem to evolve in time, and others do not.
In other words:
Some writers and comics, timelessly, make me giggle. (Calvin & Hobbes,
Larson's The Far Side, anything by Matt Groenig)
Other cartoonists made me giggle in the past, but not now
(Berke Breathed: Bloom Country)
Other cartoonists make me giggle now, but not in the past
(Monty Python)
Odd.
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