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Post by Margaret » Sun September 6th, 2009, 4:05 am

Annis is right. Laughter can serve as a defense mechanism against horrors that might be too great to bear if we had to take them seriously. Better to laugh than to go mad! Think of the truly ROTFL jokes that had your stomach muscles in spasms - they were probably about subjects with a core of pain.
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