Very misc.

[Andreis Passarinho]

That is a great quote. Which long essay on Kirk on Shakey do you mean?

(thanks!)


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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