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To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart. Its appeal is to intelligence, pure and simple.

And here is the third fact to which attention should be drawn. You would hardly appreciate the comic if you felt yourself isolated from others. Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

Doubtless a fall is always a fall, but it is one thing to tumble into a well because you were looking anywhere but in front of you, it is quite another thing to fall into it because you were intent upon a star. It was certainly a star at which Don Quixote was gazing. How profound is the comic element in the over-romantic, Utopian bent of mind!

How are you liking Bergson?

I have read too little to really decide, but I like his writing style. it might take a bit to read this as it’s been quite busy 🥲 have you read anything by him ?

No, not yet. I’ve been thinking about reading Matter and Memory. Probably this year. (I’ve also been pretty sluggish lately. Likely because of my recovering sleep schedule. My classes also seem like they’ll be a nightmare this semester haha. But probably because I haven’t been sleeping well.)

Ok if I don’t end up writing a review for this, I will still let you know what I think of it when I finish. I chose this essay because I think I have a weird sense of humour😅

Oh noooo, not sleeping well is the worst! I wish I could offer some advice but I suffer from it too 🥴 I do hope the classes won’t be as bad as they seem 🤗