Patrick Kavanagh - Steven Weinberg - Horace Walpole
The weak, washy way of true tragedy –
A sick horse nosing around the meadow for a clean place to die. Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger, 1947
Humour is one of the leavening agents that makes the tragedy of our position possible. Steven Weinberg, interview Richard Dawkins
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole