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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Source: In Quotations to Cheer You Up When the World is Getting You Down, by Allen Klein, 1991.
-- Max Eastman, (Jan 4 1883-1969), US author; He was best known for Enjoyment of Poetry, 1913; founded and edited The Masses, 1913-1918.

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