Any good comedy has its basis in tragedy. It’s a hair’s breadth removed — not the tragedy of death, but the abiding one of life.
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of… recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it…”
William Gaddis | The Recognitions