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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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beginning with the happy ending
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” nature over intellect. And the happies tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…Laughter in the house… …Homer’s Iliad concludes with a funeral, the initial event in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Daniel Rabel Sketches, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orestes and Aegisthus, Petronius Satyricon, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Hotspur
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calorie counter
What does being a bit of a plumper have to do with the fiery rhetoric and popular rabble-rousing appeal. Is the gist here that Nasrallah has become rotund and contented, succumbing to bourgeois opulence and a Martha Stewart lifestyle. Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Callcott painter, David Schenker, Hassan Nasrallah, Henry Fuseli, John S. Clifton painter, John Sheepshanks, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martha Stewart, Mohamed Morsi, Morsi at Hooters, Shakespeare Falstaff
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300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY
Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Ferre, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Ferre, Belushi and Ackroyd, Belushi and Aykroyd, Biblical Nephilim, Bruce Snowdon, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus Jewish Giant, Dionysis, Fit Light Yogurt, Harold Huge, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Isaac Cruikshank, L.C. Geerts, Mae West, Marc Hartzman, Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, Obesity, Ray Davies, Renaissance Art, Richard Wagner, Ron English, Shakespeare Falstaff, The Kinks, The Pete Lewis Band, Titian, Valkyrie Brunhilde, Ward Hall, William Heath, William Shakespeare, Zeuss
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