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Univ. of California Press, Berkeley [u.a.]
Baudelaire links man's sense of humor to the Fall: "the comic is one of the clearest signs of the devil in man and one of the numerous seeds contained in the symbolic apple." Laughter is man's way of asserting his superiority or mastery in difficult...
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Baudelaire links man's sense of humor to the Fall: "the comic is one of the clearest signs of the devil in man and one of the numerous seeds contained in the symbolic apple." Laughter is man's way of asserting his superiority or mastery in difficult situations, his way of dealing with the F/fall, that is, with his knowledge of his own imperfection, his ignorance and weakness. Laughter denies the reality or seriousness of whatever threatens to immobilize man's mind or body, whether this comes in the form of an aggressive gesture or world or in that of a seemingly unresolvable incongruity or challenging violation of conventions, such as a riddle or a grotesque drawing
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