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Chapter 31 Three, knowing smile

Lin Yutang's Autobiography 林语堂 570Words 2018-03-16
On the 9th of this month, Mr. Shi Heng freely talked about the article "Talking about Humor", which has a very good definition of humor. "Although the meaning of this term is difficult to explain, anyone who really understands these two words will naturally have a knowing smile on the corner of his mouth when he sees them, so if you hear a person talking Or when you see an article written by a person, there is something in it that can make you smile naturally, and you can conclude that there is humor in the conversation or article. Or, call that conversation, it is humorous Conversation; Huna articles, humorous articles, it is not impossible. In the field of literature and art in Western Europe, humorous writers and humorous works have obviously become a major genre."

The word "humor" is so humorous that people often don't understand it. I think the explanation of "a knowing smile" is very accurate and easy to understand.Mr. Shi Heng also said that "the humor in the new literature and art works is either extremely funny, or turned into sarcasm... Humor neither makes people giggle like funny, nor does it make people laugh after laughing like sarcasm. It's pungent. It's an undertone of a very moderate sweet smile that makes one feel intellectually and emotionally sympathetic." That's humor at its highest level.We feel that there are many types of humor. Smiling is the best, and smirking is also good. Thoughtful humor, such as George Bernard Shaw, is certainly beneficial to scholars, while idle humor, such as Mark Dean, is also authentic humor.People who are detached from the world probably feel that life is too funny when looking at everything, and they laugh out loud.Humor is just that.In this unconscious loss of voice, his smile is irresistible, and it doesn't matter whether he is sharp, generous, or whether it is beneficial to the world and people's hearts, just listen to him.Because this sharpness, or generosity, or simplicity, or tact, all come from the individual spirit, and there is nothing to force it.

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