Seek a quote about humor
March 5, 2022 3:03 AM Subscribe
Somewhere some years ago I ran across a pithy sentence saying that a sense of humor is about recognizing absurdity. That humor starts with seeing the fitness of things. Or something like that. It may not be a famous quote. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Is it possible that you are remembering this comment from some goofball on Metafilter?
posted by yankeefog at 7:13 AM on March 5, 2022
posted by yankeefog at 7:13 AM on March 5, 2022
Best answer: Maybe this quote from Anne of Green Gables?
"Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God’s love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love."
posted by prewar lemonade at 7:45 AM on March 5, 2022 [3 favorites]
"Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God’s love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love."
posted by prewar lemonade at 7:45 AM on March 5, 2022 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: That's it - the Anne of Green Gables. Thank you!
posted by goofyfoot at 3:03 PM on March 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by goofyfoot at 3:03 PM on March 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
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