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Updated: May 22, 2025

We shall find ourselves about where the Comic spirit would place us, if we stand at middle distance between the inveterate opponents and the drum- and-fife supporters of Comedy: 'Comme un point fixe fait remarquer l'emportement des autres, as Pascal says. And were there more in this position, Comic genius would flourish.

George Meredith - An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit