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△ 302｜When is the funniest joke
It is a pity that the research indicated in the title itself has no meaning to the society, but I did research and draw conclusions on this topic just now.
The scene is on the way to “listening to a class”, and I suddenly thought of a very nonsensical joke based on the content of the teacher’s words during class. And I came to a conclusion in advance – jokes are the funniest only when they are told in “class”, because doing a completely forbidden thing within the “rules” itself brings a sense of excitement. multiplied. Talking is not allowed in class, and of course jokes are not allowed, and the laughter caused by telling jokes is not allowed by the rules. So a joke can be made funnier when these rules don’t allow it – at least when I told my wife in class a joke that came to mind, I was laughing so hard that I didn’t even mention the burden. .
The joke itself is not funny, it’s like two people taking a sip of water in their mouths and watching a “funny video” together to see who will squirt first – from the mouth and in class Laughing out loud and being punished by the teacher is also full of danger and excitement, so the more they see each other laughing so hard that they can’t help bursting out of the water, the more amusing the two of them feel.
The reason I came to this conclusion is because I used to be a student who used to tell my classmates all kinds of jokes that made me laugh and twitch under the desk. . As a result, after class, another classmate asked us what we were laughing at in get out of class. After I told the joke intact, others thought it was “sick” – what’s the point of being funny? This question has troubled me for a long time, so I finally came to this conclusion today.
Therefore, this research has no meaning at all to this society at all.
Well, let’s extend this question a little to another question, and make it socially valuable: Why do people always like to keep testing on the “edge of danger”?
There is a saying that people always choose the “dramatic” choice, or that they always choose the “wrong” one between two options. For example, they clearly know that if they lend money to others, they may not get it back, so why are they willing to lend the money? It is because they want their lives to have a strong sense of “conflict” and “drama”, so that they have a “moral life story”, so that they have a “topical capital”. The story of Qian is ordinary, so this incident itself cannot become a “wonderful life”, and there is no need to tell it to others.
Just like the joke that made two people laugh so hard in get out of class that they almost lost their temper, if you tell it to others after class, it will definitely lose its original fun, it will lose its “drama” and “conflict”, and it will lose The excitement of being punished for laughing at a joke in class, without this sense of urgency, naturally no one can understand the true meaning of the joke-because the funny thing is to see the water and squirt the water out of your mouth first.
When people are tempted “on the verge of danger”, they do not hope that the danger will really happen, but enjoy the thrill of the temptation process. He is different from those who “will definitely make the wrong choice” mode, they do not want the real Danger is coming. But the final destination is still the same. If there are two choices, whether to laugh out loud in class and be scolded by the teacher, or to hold back our unruly side, in the end we will still choose to laugh out loud – you think I am so much How did the self-examination come about?
This is actually quite understandable. If all the choices of the protagonist in a novel are within the “normal range”, like Mr. Almost, and everything about him is almost the same, then there is no need for his life to be written as a novel. Bar? (But it became a song that resonated with a lot of people)
When I was in college, I took an elective course in the analysis of foreign novels. To be honest, I didn’t take a single course, but I got the highest score in the end. I still have this confidence, because I never took this course. At that time, you have already decided what kind of homework you want to hand in. I wrote an analysis of a novel before the semester started, and then I promised in class work that I would spend the semester rereading the novel and dissecting it.
I chose a novel that doesn’t need to be read too many times at all – “A Man’s Good Weather” by Nanae Aoyama.
If you have read this novel, you will also wonder why a story in the form of a diary, which is common and even a little bit rambling, is liked by so many people, and even won the 2007 Akutagawa Prize for Japanese Literature. Several times when I tried to read the novel in one sitting, I was interrupted by other things and interrupted for a long time. This is a story that you don’t need to think and guess at all, because everything in it happens “within the normal range”, and the ending of the novel is no longer what the reader is looking for. So, after I interrupted reading several times, my life went on as usual. But in the days that follow, I will start to consciously perceive and record small emotional changes, such as a cloud that I suddenly see when I look up, or a blocky curry with a 5-degree spiciness that I have not seen in a long time in the supermarket, Or I saw a group of Yang Xu rolling away with the footsteps of pedestrians in the spring, or I hugged the quilt that had just finished sunbathing in my arms and buried it in the newly changed four-piece bed and sniffed hard. The scent of the mites after being exposed to the sun… These little bits of life can be memorized so delicately that I can even tune them out from the hippocampus at this moment. And these pictures that can’t be broken down any more, and even have strong subjective synesthesia, are also pictures that will appear in my mind anytime and anywhere when I read “A Man’s Good Weather” and are linked to memory.
This is the magic of this novel, which allows readers to synthesize those delicate scenes from the novel, and to notice those “good weather that belongs to a person” from their own lives that they have not noticed.
Although I finished reading “One Man’s Good Weather” intermittently, its magic has always been with me, and it made me learn to pay attention to the “choices” in life that we have become accustomed to – “Why do we choose a A novel with a conflicting plot?” I took it as the title and spent a semester writing the assignment.
Does a life without conflict and drama mean it can’t be a novel? It’s cruel, but it is. But the ordinary life that only concerns one’s feelings, can’t it be a novel? Because the “drama” that people emphasize is always thinking about those expressions of surprise, excitement, sympathy, sadness, etc. left on other people’s faces when it becomes a story that can be told to others, these expressions are His story “assignment” has made him labelled a “wonderful life”.
But sadly, without the audience, those “wonderful lives” have no meaning, and even they haven’t the ability to turn these stories into novels, they can only become boring stories, no one reads and no one cares— – So, they have to look for more exciting “options”.
To live a rich life is a choice; but telling the story well is also a choice; to enjoy applause at the peak of life, anyone can do it; and to enjoy one’s own life when there is no applause, but Few people could sink.
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