Announce Themselves

Break Silence

Carry A Message

Escape Containers

Fill A Room

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Make A House Feel Lived In

Make Presence Visible

Reduce Distance

Release

Ring In Your Ears After

Survive Translation

Tighten When You're Nervous

Things You Only Hear In Silence

laughter

tree

acorn

dad joke

dairy

lactose intolerance

adulthood

trivia

stress

phobia

Chuck Norris

immune system

sitcom

cancer

tumor

Chrysippus

arguing

quarrelling

crazy bitch

is a divine gift that has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong. W. E. B. Du Bois

is a faculty bestowed exclusively upon man, and which there is' therefore a sort of impiety in not exercising as frequently as we can. We may say with Titus, that we have lost a day if it have passed without our laughing.

Laughter.-A faculty bestowed exclusively upon man, and which there is' therefore a sort of impiety in not exercising as frequently as we can. We may say with Titus, that we have lost a day if it have passed without our laughing.

is a force of democracy in that it's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter.

Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

is a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.

Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in. David Dobkin

is a malicious emotion that overrides rational self-control and should be avoided.

Plato, the most influential critic of laughter, treated it as an emotion that overrides rational self-control. In the Republic (388e), he says that the Guardians of the state should avoid laughter, 'for ordinarily when one abandons himself to violent laughter, his condition provokes a violent reaction.' Especially disturbing to Plato were the passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey where Mount Olympus was said to ring with the laughter of the gods. He protested that 'if anyone represents men of worth as overpowered by laughter we must not accept it, much less if gods.'

is a spasm, often discomfort, not always a joy . ..

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it' It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy' It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

is a sudden and simultaneous awareness of 'operational fields' between which experience suggested no connection.

the mechanism of laughter... it rises from a sudden and simultaneous awareness of what he calls 'operational fields' between which experience suggested no connection

laughter, n.Trivia

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