"But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small."

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Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.

— Simon Critchley