Of Laughter and Logic
Saint Thomas Aquinas already knew this of course, indeed it was a staple of medieval anthropology that the ability to get jokes was right of the essence of mankind under Aristotle's definition as "rational animal".
posted by Trent_Dougherty @ 1/20/2008
2 Comments:
Pace Umberto Eco's _Name_of_the_Rose_.
Brilliant analysis (by Nefsky). Much better than Freud's.
I'm afraid you'll have to unravel those P's and Q's (and the occasional E). I read it to my cat, who was Not Amused.
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