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Economy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a metaphor of energy -where two opposed forces playing against each other constitute the so-called identity of a phenomenon.

Economy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a reconciliation of opposites, but rather a maintaining of disjunction. Economy is identity constituted by difference. -a unit of meaning contains the possibility of its opposite.

Economy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the common thread of every joke technique — "Thrift, thrift, Horatio!" — though the saving is like a housewife's trip to a distant market to save a farthing on vegetables.

Economy (n.) still ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠pleases in small things a mind that spends lavishly overall, like the man who long enjoys flicking on the electric light, remembering the gas.

Economy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the source of all three pleasures: jokes save expenditure on inhibition, the comic on ideation, and humour on feeling.