nemo@rochester.UUCP (10/04/85)
From: Richard Newman-Wolfe <nemo>
Since I lost the original articles, and I thought the posters might be
interested in a very readable, thought-provoking book that eloquently
states many arguments in the previous articles, I am posting this
reference.
The book in question, which starts with a ~100 page essay on humor, is
Arthur Koestler's _The_Act_of_Creation_, published by Dell Pub. Co., NY
1964. Both the assertion that humor (and creativity itself) rely on
parallel interpretation structures ("two habitually incompatible associative
contexts") and that laughter is a release of emotion occurring from the
rejection by reason of the jump from one to the other. The emotions that
have too much 'inertia' to follow this jump are "self-assertive, aggressive-
defensive type, which are based on the sympathico-adrenal system and tend to
beget bodily activity."
Nemo
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Rochester, NY 14627bs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) (10/07/85)
> From: Richard Newman-Wolfe <nemo> > > Since I lost the original articles, and I thought the posters might be > interested in a very readable, thought-provoking book that eloquently > ........ etc. I repeat, can we keep this nonsense out of net.math??? Put it in net.jokes or net.bizarre, where it belongs. Bob Silverman (they call me Mr.9)