Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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