[3499] in Humor
HUMOR: Together Again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (South of Heaven)
Mon Jul 23 00:09:39 2001
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> TOGETHER AGAIN
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> Maria is a devout Catholic: She gets married and has 17 children. Soon after
> the last child is born her husband dies. A few weeks later she remarries and
> over the following years has another 22 children with her second husband.
> After the last child is born her second husband also dies. Within a month
> Maria is engaged to be married a third time. Unfortunately, she becomes very
> ill and dies.
>
> At her wake, the priest looks tenderly at Maria as she lies in her coffin,
> looks up to the heavens and says, "At least, they're finally together."
>
> A man standing next to the priest asks, "Excuse me, Father, but do you mean
> Maria and her first husband, or Maria and her second husband?"
>
> The priest says, "I mean her legs."
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Here is a book which, if such a thing were possible, might restore our
appetite for the fundamental realities. The predominant note will seem one
of bitterness, and bitterness there is, to the full. But there is also a
wild extravagance, a mad gaiety, a verve, a gusto, at times almost a
delirium. A continual oscillation between extremes, with bare stretches
that taste like brass and leave the full flavor of emptiness....For the
adventure which has brought the author to the spiritual endes of the earth
is the history of every artist who, in order to express himself, must
traverse the intangible gridirons of his imaginary world. The air pockets,
the alkali wastes, the crumbling monuments, the putrescent cadavers, the
crazy jig and maggot dance, all this forms a grand fresco of our epoch,
done with shattering phrases and loud, strident, hammer strokes.
- Anais Nin, Preface for H. Miller's Tropic of Cancer.
