Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)
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Comedy Is a What If?
In the second chapter, which is about atheism, you talk about this kind of reverie, feeling of reverie there as well. You can have a kind of religious experience, or a transcendent experience, from just noticing something wonderful in nature. In comedy writing, for example, when you is it part of noticing things and being kind of struck by them in a way that other people might not notice? Well, i've always said that, you know, comedians are very lazy scientists. We would never be bothered to go all the way to the end of a paper. We just get to theend of a punch line a go whill. I've investigated that particular idea about the
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