“ His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long. ”
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
~ E. B. White
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.