Let us recognize the pleasure of laughing as an emotion which surges from an invisible point between the heart and reason and provokes a liberating spasm in all our being.This selection of black humor shares a sentence of Seneca: It is more human to laugh at life than to cry about it To feel the joy and attraction of intelligence, authors of different countries and periods, alive and apparently dead, parade through this book, waiting for a new reader to bring them to life. This gathering of authors would be inconceivable without the spirit of Jonathan Swift, who said that is impossible for humanity to pay attention to counsel, when it has been paid attention to punishment. This selection of black humor shares a sentence of Seneca: It is more human to laugh at life than to cry about it To feel the joy and attraction of intelligence, authors of different countries and periods, alive and apparently dead, parade through this book, waiting for a new reader to bring them to life. This gathering of authors would be inconceivable without the spirit of Jonathan Swift, who said that is impossible for humanity to pay attention to counsel, when it has been paid attention to punishment. To feel the joy and attraction of intelligence, authors of different countries and periods, alive and apparently dead, parade through this book, waiting for a new reader to bring them to life. This gathering of authors would be inconceivable without the spirit of Jonathan Swift, who said that is impossible for humanity to pay attention to counsel, when it has been paid attention to punishment.