Gilbert K. Chesterton on funny

“It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.”

-Gilbert K. Chesterton

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