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If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. i'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. as schubert said, there is no happy music. and that's true, there really isn't. and there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

-Edward Gorey

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If You're Doing Nonsense It Has To

Edward Gorey

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. i'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. as schubert said, there is no happy music. and that's true, there really isn't. and there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

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I'm not offended. lenny bruce taught me that everything's funny. you can make everything funny. i don't think that assassinations are funny, i don't think you can make fun of isis, but almost everything is funny. and if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? so i don't mind ethnic humor. i like ethnic humor. i like dialect jokes. laughter is a very subjective thing. if it's funny to you it's funny. and a lot of things are funny to me.

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. why don't we just laugh at ourselves? we are funny. gays are funny. straights are funny. women are funny. men are funny. we are all funny, and we all do funny things. let's laugh about it.

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. someone being serious or angry might be funny. if you get angry, the first thing i want to do is laugh because i don't know why you're getting that angry. pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. and when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. you're just happy. i'd rather be damaged and funny.

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. sometimes i'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but i can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. i know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as i am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

As to...old composers like schubert or beethoven, i imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. and you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. and that is why i think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.

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