November/December 2016: Laughter & the Love of Friends

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“A New Head and a New Heart: Laughter in Life and Literature” by Maria Devlin

“In the film Sherlock Holmes, Holmes is hurt that his best friend Dr. Watson is moving out to get married. When he meets Watson’s fiancée, Mary, he deliberately insults her. Perhaps as he’d hoped, Mary immediately walks out. Unfortunately, so does Watson. The next day, during a sullen carriage ride, Watson demands that Holmes return the waistcoat he once gave him. It looks for a moment as though the bridges are burned—until Watson tosses the waist- coat out the window and, with a faint smirk, catches Holmes’s eye. His repaying Holmes with a joke tells us that their friend- ship is still intact.”

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