According to Kant, languor is due lo " an affection arising from tliu sudden transformation of a. strained expectation into peihing." Schopenhauer thinks he sees in laughter •'an intellectual offort and its ['lustration."" We got, that is. a preconceived irotion of sonic-thing which is going to happen, and as a fact- something else happens ; it is the incongruity bttwtvn the two that makes us laugh. The greater the incongruity, the more violon* vill K- our lauihtor.— " Spectator."
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12021, 21 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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76Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12021, 21 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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