WIT
"Wit is the art of bringing unlikely things or ideas together, in such a way that the scandal or shock of their proximity arrives alongside a conviction that they have always belonged together."
From On Aphorisms
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Daily Dose
WIT
"Wit is the art of bringing unlikely things or ideas together, in such a way that the scandal or shock of their proximity arrives alongside a conviction that they have always belonged together."
From On Aphorisms
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Daily Dose
From Essayism: On form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, by Brian Dillon
APHORISM
"The origins of the aphorism are both elevated and abject, as fits a literary form of sublime ambition that is at present in a kind of disgrace."
From page 86
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