"The last step, and the hardest to take, in assessing any comic writer, is to assert what should be an obvious truth, but one which always shyly hides: humour is not an overlay to seriousness. Humour is the thing itself, compressed and intensified into a civil code."
—Clive James, "Kingsley without the women," Times Literary Supplement
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