Posted on May 26, 2012 with 272 notes.
Tagged with mental health, comedy, Teju Cole, .

Zoom slaughterhouse90210: “There is a long marriage between comedy and human suffering, and mental illness, in particular, is easily played for laughs….Sometimes it is hard to shake the feeling that, all jokes aside, there really is an epidemic of human suffering in the world, the full brunt of which is being borne, for now, by only a luckless few.”—Teju Cole, Open City

slaughterhouse90210:

“There is a long marriage between comedy and human suffering, and mental illness, in particular, is easily played for laughs….Sometimes it is hard to shake the feeling that, all jokes aside, there really is an epidemic of human suffering in the world, the full brunt of which is being borne, for now, by only a luckless few.”
—Teju Cole, Open City

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