Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laugh at any mortal thing,/ Tis that I may not weep," wrote Byron. That philosophical fragment accounts for the duality of all black farce; looking between the cracks, one catches glimpses of hell...
...think that whalers must laugh like these movers of houses
fast-starting smile and laugh...
...life, however wildly comic it seems, is not really funny unless it is a parodic replay of The Man Within. In "the mirror surface where creation rests," no man sees his true reflection. Only when the mirror is distorted as in a fun fair can a man laugh in the face of his own tragic mask. Recently, in the pages of London's New Statesman, Graham Greene (pseudonymously, of course) entered a competition for the best parody of Graham Greene's style. He did not win, though his entry was printed.* In Travels with My Aunt...
Competitors are willing to share the storm. The Louis Marx Co. has The Laugh Machine, at twice the size and with a laugh that sounds as if a child were being tickled and tickled. Then there is a "Bag of Laughs," a "Laughing Pouch," and for those who like their titters in hard covers, a "Box O Laffs." Legal battles may be forthcoming. The issue: whether laughter, packaged, is in the public domain...