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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20021208
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"There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind - - the humorous." The observation, attributed to Mark Twain, describes the present situation in these never-ending days of national trauma and compensatory belligerence. Whatever may be the case with people's actual desires, it seems that publishers have decided to deliver such a dose of soul medicine as would float the heaviest mind onto an eternal sea of boredom. This is all wrong, and, keeping in mind that nothing is so bleak as a book that fails to be funny chortling away in one's ear, it is time to find something to laugh ...

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