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Re: humor and humor studies
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Judith Yaross Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:52:33 -0500
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 "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process
and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific
mind."--E.B. White, "Preface," in A Subtreasury of American Humor, ed. E.
B. White and Katharine S. White (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1941), xvii.

--On Friday, January 18, 2008 10:12 PM -0800 "Laidlaw, Arianne"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I say, smiling, that this was an entertaining read with points well
> taken.  Now I have to go look up E.B. White on frogs.
>
> Arianne Laidlaw


Judith Yaross Lee, Ph.D.
Ohio University
Athens, OH

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