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estrangement abroad to reunion at home
La forza di natura, the force of nature will always prevail. Comedy is always the triumph of instinct over intellect. By whatever name, instinct is not only a will to live, but to produce life; comedy is essentially erotic… And … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Catullus poems, Charles Darwin, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jan van Noordt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sigmund Freud Comedy, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Beatles Two of Us
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triumph of instinct over intellect
All comedy aspires to laughter, although not all laughter is related to comedy. Still, many essential aspectsof comedy find affirmation in this response. To begin with, as Aristotle long ago observed, laughter is a uniquely human prerogative. Even that staid … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriaen van der Werff, Biblical Tale of Sarah, Boccaccio Decameron, Easter Laughter Greek Orthodox Church, Homer Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Homeric Hymn to Demeter, John Milton Paradise Lost, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pliny Roman scholar, Sandro Botticelli, Suzanne Langer, Willem van Mieris
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“give me life”
Living for what is livelier in the flesh. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s law of the Church: suppress all sensual feelings by force of reason. It is the antithesis of comedy which is the triumph of la forza di natura, the force … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce The Devoted Widow, Boccaccio Decameron, Fellini Satyricon, Gaius Petronius, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean de la Fontaine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petronius Satyricon, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Widow of Ephesus
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nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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laff tracks : avoiding the food for worms fate
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” or nature over intellect, laughing matter over mind, what is livelier in the flesh over what is nobler in the mind. Who needs intangibles. And the happiest tale … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Davide Ghirlandaio, henry goddard psychologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Odysseus, Paolo Conte, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Henry IV, Shakespeare Hotspur
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