The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of i…

Umberto Eco
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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