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Contents Preface ix 1. Appropriate Incongruity Redux 1 2. The Senses of Absurd Humor 13 3. Joke Thoughts 27 4. The Humor of Hate 41 5. Blond Ambitions and Other Signs of the Times 58 6. Humor and the Suppression of Sentiment 71 7. The Joke as Gloss 85 8. Colonizing Humor 97 9. Sigmund Freud’s Jewish Joke Book 116 10. The Context of Internet Humor 129 Afterword 141 Appendix 147 Notes 163 Index 203 ...

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