Chapter 19 | Day 19 #DailyNote@O

Part 1

1. fool around

2. blow sth up

3. slip off

Part 2

• If this strikes you as a paradox, you’re not alone. Writers of humor live with the knowledge that many of their readers don’t know what they are trying to do. I remember a reporter calling to ask how I happened to write a certain parody in Life. At the end he said, “Should I refer to you as a humorist? Or have you also written anything serious?”

• The answer is that if you’re trying to write humor, almost everything you do is serious.

这里作者拿自己开涮，非常可爱的自嘲。可以说是对hurmor的生动诠释了。这让我想起前几天在朋友圈看到的一个链接，一本正经地开玩笑，解释了“自黑”——

刚学会了网页截图，是不是比链接要友好一点～ 和妈咪的买一送一~

以上。