“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise, – in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought, – often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.”

“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise, – in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought, – often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.”

— Edwin Percy Whipple