24 November 2007
A Rom-inspired Blog: The Gift of Laughter
)Published on November 24th, 2007 @ 06:08:26 am, using 262 words, 69 views
I read or heard somewhere recently that it’s easier to make someone cry than it is to make someone laugh. To that I would add, it’s harder still (and profoundly captivating) to make someone laugh past the point of sound, deep into the realm of tears, and leave them smack in the middle of a state of complete, agonizing, doubled-over redness, with no trail of breadcrumbs to play light at the end of the tunnel to their convulsive body. It’s liberating and cleansing and best of all, laughable. Lovely how laughter begets laughter…
People who can make you laugh till you cry are angels in my book. People who… can go from the subject of Click (yes, the Adam Sandler movie - one of the many I haven’t seen, save the couple of un-Sandler ones) and in ten minutes’ time take you through Run Lola Run, Saramago, hepatitis, the unwiseness of lending - despite its occasional ‘medical’ benefit - and India, only to end up recounting the painfully funny episode of tangled up Indians in a subway car at 6pm on a Friday… have got to be human treasures.
Thanks for the Saramago recommendation, CD-Rom! (It’s on my reading list) and THANKS for the agonizing, doubled-over, tearful redness (You’ll never know how much I needed it) :D
Click here to read the ‘Indians-tangled-up-in-a-subway-car’ story in its original Portuguese.
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
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Laughter, tears, Indians, angels, Click, Run Lola Run, Saramago
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