“Laughter is a release of tension on discovering that a perceived threat is not, in fact, a threat at all.”
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
“In the normal run of things, we ignore the joke's dark underbelly. We laugh them off without much thought, but the jokes we tell and the jokes we respond to reveal a great deal about us.
They can function at once to conceal and to expose our deepest beliefs and bigotries.”
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
They can function at once to conceal and to expose our deepest beliefs and bigotries.”
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“Or even, like the Union commander General John Sedgwick, during the American Civil War, 'They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist...”
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
― The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes
VY’s 2025 Year in Books
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