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You have no sense of humor. That is a test story, and only a true humorist laughs at it. Now, the hearer may have an exquisite sense of humor, but he may be lacking in a sense of nonsense, and so the story gives him no pleasure. De Quincey said,
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None but a man of extraordinary talent can write first-rate nonsense. Only a short study of the subject is required to convince us that De Quincey was right; and he might have added, none but a man of extraordinary taste can appreciate first-rate nonsense. As an instance of this, we may remember that Edward Lear,