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From: wiener@idacrd.UUCP (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Meta-humor
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Garfield once slept through Monday, all three panels.  The next day, he wakes
up and says "You know it's Monday when you wake up and it's Tuesday."

For really great meta-humor, though, you want more than one-liners.  The best
I can think of off the top of my head are the plays of Tom Stoppard and some of
John Barth's fiction, especially his short story "The Menechniad" (??) in his
collection _Lost in the Funhouse_.  That story stands out after ten+ years
easily: with quotations nesting *eight* deep or so, and characters speaking
across the nestings, and sentences ending ...?'!'?'!'?'! (all quite logically),
and, oh I can't remember anymore, but it was great, the mind boggles.

As a serious Beckett-head, I'm convinced a deep meta-humor exists across his
complete works, but it's hard to pin down.

berkeley!brahms!weemba
Matthew P Wiener
Math Dept UCB
Berkeley CA 94720