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Robert Grossmith is a UK writer, born 1954 and based near Norwich. His short stories have been widely published, including in The Time Out Book of London Short Stories, The Best of Best Short Stories and The Penguin Book of First World War Stories. He has also published a novel about lucid dreaming, The Empire of Lights (Hamish Hamilton, 1990), and a comedy romance about philosophy, The Year of Living Philosophically (MTP, 2020), as well as poems, scholarly articles and book reviews. He has a BA in Philosophy & Psychology and a PhD on Vladimir Nabokov and worked for many years as a bilingual dictionary editor at HarperCollins. Further information is available at www.robertgrossmith.com ...more

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The Empire of Lights

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Lines of Descent

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What is it we’re laughing at when we laugh at a joke? Wha...

What is it we’re laughing at when we laugh at a joke? What is it that makes it an enjoyable experience?

Here’s a couple of my favourite comedy moments, a one-liner from Bob Monkhouse and a stand-up routine from Jim Davidson:

When I die I hope I go the way my old dad went, peacefully in his sleep and not screaming like his passengers.

This old dear came on to me once but I told her I wasn’t inter

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Albert Einstein
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

Søren Kierkegaard
“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

Jorge Luis Borges
“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Peter    Cook
“As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”
― Peter Cook

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