What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the
grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal
situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of
distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which
so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odour or
their delicate perfume? The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle
downwards, have tackled this little problem, which has a knack of
baffling every effort, of slipping away and escaping only to bob up
again, a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation. Our
excuse for attacking the problem in our turn must lie in the fact
that we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a
definition. We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However
trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life.
We shall confine ourselves to watching it grow and expand.
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