Laughter And Truth

myth:laughter_and_truth

And the thread beneath it all: laughter and madness both break the ordinary order of things. The fool, the carnival, the mad knight, the 'wild words' of kyogen — each steps outside the sane and the proper, and from outside can say what the sane and the powerful may not. Folly is the freedom to tell the truth; the jester and the madman are the only ones who never lie. A weft that crosses every land and age. — comparative literature (reflexive)