Jack Levin

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    This is the maiden all forlorn
    That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)

    If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life’s failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria.
    —Harry Levin (b. 1912)