A joke and a poem die the same death: explain either and you're performing an autopsy, not a resurrection. What C.K. calls timing, prosody calls the line break — the silence placed exactly where the listener falls into it. Cézanne is the odd one out here only until you notice his apples are also about withholding the punchline.
Wait. Louis C.K. The guy who likes to masturbate in front of women without consent? That guy? Yikes. How enlightened are you?
very dissapointing
So disappointing
Huge fan of Louis. He's the king of diving into the depths of rejection and finding his way out, even knowing that it won't happen most nights.
I hadn't made the connection to other creative acts, so I appreciate this.
A joke and a poem die the same death: explain either and you're performing an autopsy, not a resurrection. What C.K. calls timing, prosody calls the line break — the silence placed exactly where the listener falls into it. Cézanne is the odd one out here only until you notice his apples are also about withholding the punchline.