For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — -these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but... The Mysterious Stranger: And Other Stories - Página 132por Mark Twain - 1922 - 323 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Mark Twain - 1916 - 188 páginas
...was only brass. One day when he was in this vein he mentioned a detail — the sense of humor. <LI cheered up then, and took issue. I said we possessed...laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and flgLtmg witii your i -other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave ii it lying rusting. As... | |
| Philip Wagner - 1966 - 49 páginas
...Other weapons might, with time and diligence, make some impression on humbug, but as Mark Twain said, "only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast." The fourth was the care with which he placed his readers, those he wanted to persuade, on his side... | |
| Mark Twain - 2005 - 850 páginas
...fiction; you see the result — and you criticize! 1 said I would make him permanently happy, and 1 have done it. I have made him happy by the only means...can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use... | |
| Catherine H. Zuckert - 1990 - 294 páginas
...Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug, . . . weaken it a little, century by century; but only Laughter...blast. Against the assault of Laughter, nothing can stand.18 1f fear be more fundamental than compassion and if human beings fear ridicule — as the obverse... | |
| James S. Leonard, Thomas Tenney, Thadious M. Davis - 1992 - 292 páginas
...in The Mysterious Stranger, the human race, "for all its grotesqueries and absurdities and shams has one really effective weapon — laughter. . . . Power,...Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand" (chap. 10). The design of Huckleberry Finn is artistically sure, centered in the consciousness of Huck,... | |
| Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 páginas
...supplication, persecution," can stir up hostility against humbugs. But laughter alone can blow them "to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."8 Satan speaks these lines, but he is speaking for his author. Reflections on the problematic... | |
| Barry Sanders - 1996 - 350 páginas
...persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift a colossal humbug — push it a lirde — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter...at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing stands."* Nothing stands, not even more laughter. The aphorism "fighting fire with fire," as we shall... | |
| Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 páginas
...was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down on the doctor's bills like everything. [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon —...Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Satan, in The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10 (1916). It grieves me to think how far more profound and... | |
| James R. Morrell - 1996 - 106 páginas
...money, persuasion, .supplication, tion— these can lift at a colossal humbug— push it a lift le— weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast." — Mark Twain. P-77 VII. Twilight "Through these [forms and ceremonies} they are made slaves of the... | |
| Will Kaufman - 1997 - 284 páginas
..."'Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug, — push it a little, century by century: but only Laughter...blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.'"55 Of course, it would be foolish for any comedian to admit outright such a subversive intent:... | |
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