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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

The eve of joy.



“I divide the causes of human laughter into joy, fun, the joke proper, and flippancy.

You will see the first among friends and lovers reunited on the eve of a holiday.

Among adults some pretext in the way of jokes is usually provided, but the facility with which the smallest witticisms produce laughter at such a time shows that they are not the real cause.  What is the real cause we do not know.

Something  like it is expressed in much of that detestable art which the humans call “music”, and something like it occurs in heaven - a meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience, quite opaque to us.  

Laughter of this kind does us no good and should always be discouraged.  Besides, the phenomenon is of itself disgusting and a direct insult to the realism, the dignity, and the austerity of hell.”C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Laughter lifts.  Excitement exudes.  Desire delights.


Doesn’t this journey to ‘joy’ derive from detachment?

Otherwise, I only have ‘happiness’.



An acceleration from agony to anticipation?

Perhaps what’s most probable, is a palpable pleasure that never possesses…




I have a GIVENNESS NOW to entertain the eve of joy.