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Editorial

What’s So Funny?

by Rick Lewis

After the serious meaning of life broodings of the last issue, now for something completely different. Laughter forms a part of the life of everyone involved with an independent magazine – the happy laughter which goes with sharing ideas with lighthearted and talented collaborators; the tired laughter at the end of long pre-press editing sessions; the gallows humour of the accountant as he goes over the books and the demented cackle of the publisher as he is finally carted off in a straightjacket. Humour is a universal human characteristic (alright, almost universal). What better subject for philosophical investigation than humour?

Thus it was put to me by Tim Madigan, when he suggested the theme for this issue. And I fell for it.

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