This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi good and bad jokes The day may come when some insuppressible classificator, a kind of scholastic joculary entomologist, equipped with an eyepiece and a bottle of chloroform, will go about collecting all the different kinds of jokes and puns and whims and twits and follies, and all the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi good and bad jokes The day may come when some insuppressible classificator, a kind of scholastic joculary entomologist, equipped with an eyepiece and a bottle of chloroform, will go about collecting all the different kinds of jokes and puns and whims and twits and follies, and all the nameless little light-winged forms of "smile talk" that the ingenious hand of evolution may unfold, pin them down in a great book with names derived from the all-suffering Latin, one each for the genus, species, family, order, tribe to which they severally belong, and so endow the mighty steel-ribbed shelves of the libraries of this world with a new and monumental science. It will be a science upon which those who are addicted to labor can practise their vice without fear of ever exhausting the material. For here we have already, with our distinction between simple humor and jokes with a point, and between the two currents of value, positive and negative, which constitute the point of a joke, and between poetic and practical, quantitative and qualitative humor--we have already laid ground for enough permutations and combinations to fill with their illustration many laborious volumes. And we have not even mentioned the well-known distinction between dry humor and wet, or between salt wit and sweet, or made half the trouble that might be made out of that between comic action and the humor that is conveyed in words. Undoubtedly a deep and stupendous task is here already in outline. And there remains the fact that when we are once inwardly frivolized, and rendered a little inanely hysterical, as we certainly shall be before we have finished perusing one of these vast works, we will laugh at anything at all that is mentioned--and so in the end the...
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