An interesting link from Nurse Fusion. Not sure I agree with the thesis, however, except within the narrow genre of "literary fiction," which has become such a small ignored arena as to be virtually unread. Many films haven't lost a cosmic sense of humor. Nor have plays.
The Greeks understood that comedy (the gods' view of life) is superior to tragedy (the merely human). But since the middle ages, western culture has overvalued the tragic and undervalued the comic. This is why fiction today is so full of anxiety and suffering. It's time writers got back to the serious business of making us laugh ... by Julian Gough
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