How does the comic send a signal of transcendence?
The comic is a kind of island experience. For example, if I now told you a joke or you told me a joke, we would immediately signal to one another that this is not to be taken seriously. We’ll say, “This is a joke –have you heard the latest?” Or we may even signal it with our body language. And then we laugh, and for the moment the serious world is suspended. And then we say, “But now, seriously…” and we go back to our so-called serious business. The clown shows this island experience very well. Nothing can happen to the clown. He always gets up again. He is hit over the head, it doesn’t hurt him. He has a pratfall, he jumps up again. He’s magically invulnerable. We know that that’s not the real world. The clown comedy appears as an island of safety and well-being in a world that we know very well is neither safe nor conducive in the end to our well-being. Now that experience has a strange similarity to religion. Religious experience is also an enclave. A purely secular interpretatio
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