Humor is the fourth dimension of this world, without it futile and unlivable . . .

A secret conquered at the cost of long suffering, humor is the answer to superior minds to this world in which they feel themselves alien. More than a natural secretion, as it has too often been regarded, humor manifests, on the contrary, the heroic attitude of those who are unwilling to compromise.

— Maurice Nadeau, The History of Surrealism

Perhaps humor breaks the quantum bonds created by story . . . and laughter is the energy that is set free.

above
the sea of voices
a laughing gull

— Michelle Tennison