Very misc.

[Mark Kohut]

Someone: "A thing in wind is caffeinated, buzzing with aura."---all
that busyness in M & D

"Every joke is [can be] a tragedy averted". An aphorism either from
Kierkegaard on Shakespeare or
extrapolated from K by the guy who wrote the long essay on K on Shakey.

Which means, I gloss, that since a joke/wit in literature and poetry
is a conjunction of at
least two 'trains of thought associations" made to collide at an
unusual angle, the trains of thought
can be "tragic" and wit turns those trains to tragedy aside.

Anyway, I like this way of 'saying' that jokes/wit/humor CAN BE as
deep as the seriousness of
tragedy if done right. Ala Pynchon. ..James Wood might read and think
about K on Shakey then reread TRP...(yeah, right)
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l