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On the Meaning of the Comic

[Com­edy can­not] pro­duce its dis­turb­ing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the sur­face of the soul that is thor­oughly calm and unruf­fled. Indif­fer­ence is its nat­ural envi­ron­ment, for laugh­ter has no greater foe than emo­tion.” Yet it “does not exist out­side the pale of what is strictly human. A land­scape may be beau­ti­ful, charm­ing and sub­lime, or insignif­i­cant and ugly; it will never be laugh­able.“I — Henri Berg­son, via Sally O’Reilly, ‘Things Fall Apart,’ Frieze Magazine.

  1. Henri Berg­son, ‘Laugh­ter: An Essay on the Mean­ing of the Comic’, 1899; repr. Macmil­lan & Co., Lon­don, 1935, pp. 3–21 []
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The Small Stakes

Two exam­ples of a superb four-​​colour screen­print in progress by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes design stu­dio. Many of his prints are for sale, in lim­ited runs, in his online shop.

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