maybe if beauty is hitting a target that's hard to hit, humor is missing a target that's hard to miss
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
"beautiful families are all alike, every funny family is funny in its own way"
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit haha that was in my first draft1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@VesselOfSpirit I think humor is the exact counterpart to beauty - identifying a flaw in a projected abstractionpic.twitter.com/ztInweyISH
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing at least until you start reasoning like, "that's completely random, complete randomness is totally a standard target"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit my humor beliefs are based on http://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_Jokes.html?id=InufugRltEMC … - humor as pornified reward for finding error in projected abstraction2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing i've seen somebody analogize it to catastrophe theory i think, maybe not legitimately2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@sarahdoingthing the idea being something like there's a sudden discontinuous shift in interpretation as a result of small ordinary steps2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing e.g. if someone tells a long story as the setup for a terrible pun then on the surface there's a natural thing that's part
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