An Outline of Humor Being a True Chronicle From Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century

Excerpt: Being a True Chronicle From Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century. Speaking exactly, an Outline of the World?s Humor is an impossibility. For surely the adjectives most applicable to humor are elusive, evasive, evanescent, ephemeral, intangible, imponderable, and other terms expressing unavailability. To outline such a thing is like trying to trap a sunbeam or bound an ocean. Yet an O...