A Book of Famous Wits (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Jerrold, Walter) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Book of Famous Wits Man has been variously defined as an animal who wears clothes, an animal who cooks, an animal who smokes, and so on; he might be described also as an anecdote-loving animal. Everybody tells stories or listens to them, and in this I do not mean stories which have grown into psychological treatises under the name of novels, but brief anecdotes of real or imaginary people in unusual circumstances. The circumstance may be ridiculous, as of a portly and pompous person sitting down "hard and sudden" on a muddy pavement - from which we get the elementary or basic humour of incongruity - or it may pass through varying grades to the refinements of wit which are purely intellectual - where the suggested ideas are seemingly incongruous until brought into sudden juxtaposition. From enjoying the amusement of the incongruity as spectator or original hearer, it is but a step to enjoying it as history, and in that lies no doubt the reason for the existence of a very considerable library of anecdotal literature. Amusement is as necessary to a healthy mind as salt is to a healthy body, and that amusement attends us less naturally the further we remove from savagery and childhood is one of the penalties we pay for civilization and for growing up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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