| Analysts have their go at humor, and I
have read some of this interpretative literature,{{U}} (1) {{/U}}without
being greatly instructed. Humor can be{{U}} (2) {{/U}},{{U}} (3)
{{/U}}a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are{{U}}
(4) {{/U}}to any but the pure scientific mind. One of the things{{U}} (5) {{/U}}said about humorists is that they are really very sad 'people clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly{{U}} (6) {{/U}}. It would be more{{U}} (7) {{/U}}, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone's life and that the humorist, perhaps more{{U}} (8) {{/U}}of it than some others, compensates for it actively and{{U}} (9) {{/U}}Humorists fatten on troubles. They have always made trouble{{U}} (10) {{/U}}They struggle along with a good will and endure pain{{U}} (11) {{/U}}, knowing how well it will{{U}} (12) {{/U}}them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing hoards and' swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible{{U}} (13) {{/U}}of tight boots. They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a{{U}} (14) {{/U}}of what is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong{{U}} (15) {{/U}}of human woe. Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don't have to be a humorist to {{U}}(16) {{/U}}the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point{{U}} (17) {{/U}}his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is{{U}} (18) {{/U}}humor, like poetry, has an extra content, it plays{{U}} (19) {{/U}}to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the{{U}} (20) {{/U}}. |