Max Eastman - A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You ...

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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ein Witz ist kein Ding, sondern ein Vorgang, ein Trick, den Sie im Kopf des Zuhörers spielen. Du fängst ihn zu einem plausiblen Ziel an, und dann landest du ihn durch eine plötzliche Wendung nirgends oder genau dort, wo er nicht erwartet hätte.

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