Learning to Write V

Art affects life because it teaches us how to see, how to hear, how to feel; because it has the capacity to create for us what we might term norms of feeling.
Within comedy, whatever else we may find, there is always the assertion of invulnerability, we are given permission to laugh by the perception that [...]






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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield

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