And then I said acidly: "Am I to understand that you have ferreted out something comic in the history of Flora de Barral ?" "Comic!" he exclaimed.

"No! What makes you say?
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Oh, I laughed--did I?
But don't you know that people laugh at absurdities that are very far from being comic?
Didn't you read the latest books about laughter written by philosophers, psychologists?
There is a lot of them.