Comic relief
Christian Century, May 15, 2007
COMIC RELIEF: In a tribute to the late Kurt Vonnegut, Newsweek (April 23) quotes Vonnegut's comments on humor in a 1976 interview with the CHRISTIAN CENTURY: "Well, of course, humor is an almost physiological response to fears, as I understand it," he said. "I saw the destruction of Dresden. I mean I saw it before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterwards, and certainly one response is laughter.
God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief."
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