Wit

While he is moderate in his denunciation of Wit in the _Essay upon Wit_, he does insist that even at its best it can never be noble.

Essay upon Wit Sir Richard Blackmore 1695

That every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which we call Wit, unless it be such an one that gives Delight and

Spectator, May 11, 1711 1711

Ideas is not that which we call Wit, unless it be such an one that gives

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Tho perhaps the Talent which we call Wit, like that of Humour, is as clearly understood by its simple Term, as by the most labour'd

Essay upon Wit Sir Richard Blackmore 1695

That which they call Wit, is sometimes a new Simile, sometimes a fine

Essays on Wit No. 2 Richard Flecknoe 1639

Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit is a tome, whose cover, spine, pages, and words are constructed from nothing but Lego bricks (thousands of them conjoined together, each brick no bigger than a flat tile, four pegs in size).

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"Parody and travesty," Freud noted in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, "accomplish the degradation of the exalted" — and so does a good negative review.

James Atlas on Disparagement 2005

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Boing Boing: April 17, 2005 - April 23, 2005 Archives 2005

Previously: Crop circle psycho science, Foreigners don't have computers!, and Girl I Know You Messin Wit my Man.

Boing Boing: April 17, 2005 - April 23, 2005 Archives 2005

"Parody and travesty," Freud noted in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, "accomplish the degradation of the exalted" — and so does a good negative review.

James Atlas on Disparagement 2005