Intellectual perspective and humor

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
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What is humor except crossing a boundary?

I wish I were an ivy growing on your wall

I wish I were a berry

Just about to fall

 wish I were a hazelnut

And you would break a tooth

 For my name is Sally Anne

and not, and not,not just  Ruth

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