comedy

poetry

is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. The cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment.

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other. David Dobkin

is just the reverse of science in terms of its use of words. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one. (David Daiches)

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