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    “Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)

    “Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
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