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Complementary to his is Thurber's remark that humour is a kind of emotional chaos, told about quietly and calmly in retrospect. Emotional chaos is not pleasant; distillation of that chaos afterward may perhaps be pleasant in some of its aspects, and undoubtedly gives pleasure to others.

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Complementary to his is Thurber's remark that humour is a kind of emotional chaos, told about quietly and calmly in retrospect. Emotional chaos is not pleasant; distillation of that chaos afterward may perhaps be pleasant in some of its aspects, and undoubtedly gives pleasure to others. Robertson Davies

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