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HE WHO has provoked the shaft of wit, had better not complain if he smarts from it. [With Samuel Johnson]
WIT OUGHT to be a glorious treat like caviar. [Noel Coward]
THE NEXT best thing to being humorous oneself, could be to quote
the anecdote of someone else. [Cf. Christian Nestell Bovee on wit]
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Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Briefing
To free yourself, maintain your balance. Humour can often help that,
by presenting a better perspective than many others. Besides,
frivolous-looking and non-bossy humour often forms part of the giant
discipline. Giant means spiritual in most of our contexts.Not all that's presented as humour is kind or good, and some fruits can have bitter after-tastes.
Bluff less. Terse humour may be fit toward bringing about less bluffing.
And at times there may be nothing like a gale of laughter to offset tenseness and nervousness - which in the long run tend to breed many psychosomatic diseases.
What if this be true: "The harder they laugh, the tougher is their soil to handle"?
Much Oriental teaching, like Zen, may look like humour at first glance, just as Reginald Blyth has shown in a good book of his. [See Orh]. His eminent Zen teacher, Dr. D. Suzuki, held this opinion: "Tao is Zen, and Zen is Tao." Even inside hard-headed Judaism, humour can be looked on as top religious, as seen in A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. [Ato]
The whole essay that these hightlights were taken from: [LINK]
Sage Words
AS AN ACACEMIC writer, make doubly sure your good ideas are relevant
and tie in with highly regarded, valid literature in your arena, or there
could be troubles ahead, just as D.L. Pierce is into here:Your (Doctoral Dissertation) Committee Says: "Your hypotheses were not tied to the existing literature."
Your Committee Means: "You came up with a creative, new idea and we want to make sure you never do it again."[Excerpt: D.L. Pierce, MA, in "Understanding Your Doctoral Dissertation Committee: A Survivor's Guide for Advanced Graduate Students"] [Check]
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