What tickles us about writing is very personal, but it's striking how quickly funny writing seems to pass its read-by date Comedy does not age well. Aristophanes is pretty much the sole survivor of Greek comedy; Plautus and Terence of Roman. Some of the comic bits in Shakespeare, which make no sense now, are often best cut. The same is not true of serious writing. Readers will excuse a mediocre ...
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