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.
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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.
“A stranger is someone / who sits
very still at the kitchen table,
looks down at his knuckles, / thinks some day we will laugh about this, / doesn’t believe it.”
Anne Carson | “The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide”