“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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