“I have always taken an almost intoxicating delight in ‘perilous laughter,’ that is to say laughter which, either from good manners or fear, has to be controlled at all costs. The kind of laughter which, on solemn occasions or in the presence of the great, sometimes wells up within one with such violence that the human frame is nearly shattered in the course of its suppression.”
Lord Berners, First Childhood