Comedy: The Stuff of Tragedy
Humor is the only divine quality to be found in humanity.
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer
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How Comedy Became a Dystopian Imperial Hell World
youtu.beI don’t see humor as some sort of shrunken or deficient cousin of “real” writing. Being funny is about as deep and truthful as I can be. When I am really feeling life and being truthful, the resulting prose is comic. The world is comic. It’s not always funny but it is always comic. Comic, for me, means that there is always a shortfall between what
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Comedy is an extension of intelligence. It’s hard to be really funny if you’re not really smart.
Mark Manson • Will
On the whole, she felt, life was more comedy than tragedy. Nearly everything that happened had its comic element, not too well buried, either. Sooner or later one could find something to laugh at in almost every situation. That was what, in the last analysis, could keep folks from going mad. The truth was, if you got a good Tragedy out of a lifetim
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