Homer Crow quoted in "Humor in Life and Literature"
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People are queer. It’s easy to make them laugh after you have pried the first laugh loose. Human beings go around with their faces frozen and set; they don’t know how to laugh, and it takes a jolt to get that first laugh, but once that is broken, the laugh comes fairly easy.
— Homer on Comedy
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "People are queer. It’s easy to make them laugh after you have pried the first laugh loose. Human beings go around with their faces frozen and set; they don’t know how to laugh, and it takes a jolt to get that first laugh, but once that is broken, the laugh comes fairly easy." in the context of "Homer Crow quoted in "Humor in Life and Literature"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Comedy" (C)
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About Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
About Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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