Erika Chapin’s Reviews > The Book of Laughter and Forgetting > Status Update

“Forced laughs. Laughable laughs. Laughs so laughable they made them laugh. Then it came—real laughter, total laughter—sweeping them off in its unbounded effusion. Bursts of laughter, laughter rehashed, jostled laughter, laughter defleshed, magnificent laughter, sumptuous and wild… and they laughed to the infinity of the laughter of their laughs… O laughter! Laughter of delight, delight of laughter…”