“Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution–these can lift at a colossal humbug,–push it a little–crowd it a little–weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”
Mark Twain, “Chronicle of Young Satan” (courtesy of Tim Hulsey)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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