In my practice of therapy, I always try to add some humor and intellectual spark to the often swampy and humorless experience of a life problem. Even in the dark you have to be awake and alert. People often sense one emotion at a time, instead of appreciating the emotional complexity of the situations in which they find themselves. But it is

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A novella is a short novel. Philosophers write protreptic novellas in order to flesh out their philosophical messages and help them stick in their readers psyches more deeply than if they only put them in some tome. C.S. Lewis discusses this mode of philosophy as he discusses front door apologetics and side door apologetics—front door being essays... See more

ves. I will proceed by comparing the basic featurtraditionally ascribed to aesthetic experience - which, as I have saiis considered important--with basic features of humor. In the enI would suggest, humor is best understood as itself a kind of aestheexperience, equal in value at least to any other kind of aestheexperience. If aesthetic experience... See more