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15 JAN 2004
Redeeming Laughter by Peter L. Berger, 1997
The Comic Dimension of Human Experience

p.x. "The comic conjures up a separate world, different from the world of ordinary reality, operating by different rules. It is also a world in which the limitations of the human condition are miraculously overcome. The experience of the comic is, finally, a promise of redemption. Religious faith is the intuition (some lucky people would say the conviction) that the promise will be kept."

p.xv. "...if I could ever say, This is what it is, I would be in possession of the innermost secret of existence."
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