The Sense Of Humor (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From The Sense Of Humor This May Seem A Remote Opening For A Book About Humor, But It Happens That The Problem Of Humor Has Always Been A Special Field Of Play For The Irresponsible Essay-Writer, And The Literature That Adorns It Is No Toriously Inconsequential. When I Told Bernard Shaw That I Was Writing This Book, He Advised Me To Go To A Sanitarium. There Is No More Dangerous Literary Symptom, He Said, Than A Temptation To Write About Wit And Humor. It Indicates The Total Loss Of Both. And With A Proper Emphasis Upon The Word Literary, That Is Entirely True. But If Technical Science Con Tinnes To Develop As It Has In The Last Half-Century, And Men Of Letters Continue Not To Develop, It Will Soon Be True That There Is No More Dangerous Literary Symptom Than A Temptation To Write About Any Problem Of Gen Eral Knowledge. People Will Take Our Plays Seriously, But Not Our Prefaces - Not Our Essays, Epigrams, And Immortal Disquisitions. These They Will Glance Through With An Indulgent Smile, And Then Go Look The Thing Up In A Laboratory Report And Find Out What The Truth Is. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.