{The Letter and the Spirit [continued (7)]}[2nd March 1988]

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*What about Comedians? – whose occupational birth-date is shown statistically with musicians, near R~. Well, I think that they are not actors,** but are in a category by themselves. Humour is a strange thing, perhaps linked to creativity, perhaps not. It is, or requires, a kind of detachment from the subject-matter, generally the World or the Self, which is characteristic of the R~-+C†I~ arc or area.*** It may be that humour assists the development of the detachment which it requires,**** so as to become a healing power against potential breakdown and schizophrenia. I think I have suggested Love as a possible cure for these ills; whether this is correct or not, the best humour (I suspect) is founded on detachment from, and love of, its subject.

*[See last previous entry.]

**{(pace the Bishop in [2]) [which was and/or will be revised subsequently.]}

***[& of a certain type of religious outlook; cf. Sufi (e.g. Nasruddin) and Jewish humour (see next fn****). <20171006>]

****{cf. “Rabbi [Lionel] Blue”? (spelt right? [Yes]) <891006>}

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