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...sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works are its Bible. Through the doctor, Gregoire learns the rules underlying the smooth facade of verbal exchanges. "Be witty, sharp and malicious," is the basic idea, but he must never laugh at his own jokes. A good jab can make him the talk of the court, but unfortunately, so can a bad one. We see the doctor agonizing the next day about a comeback that he had jumbled the night before...
...Everyone talks about paramedics' gallows humor," he says. "It's just a way of coping. If you didn't laugh, you wouldn't survive...
...must plod ahead and enjoy my remaining time here. The last snowy reading period, the carefree afternoons and my good friends (and my thesis) beckon to me. Someday, perhaps at our 25th reunion, perhaps sooner, we'll look back and laugh. We'll wonder why we worried so much about the future, which in retrospect will seem to have been quite clear. We will reach a point when those frantic high school days will have truly passed from existence, to rear their ugly head no more. We will have proven ourselves and we will be satisfied. After all, we went...
...before Sweeney got her cancer diagnosis, she had agreed to appear at a benefit for the Gilda Radner Foundation to fight ovarian cancer. "I feel guilty talking about her, because it seems like I'm comparing myself to her," says Sweeney, who talks with easygoing candor and a persistent laugh that works like musical accompaniment. "And I don't think that's appropriate." Yet she proudly recalls meeting a cousin of Radner's who told her, "If Gilda had lived, she'd be doing exactly what you're doing right now." Says Sweeney: "It made me feel so happy...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...