Spring Auction 2018
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Philosopher, essayist, and writer (1863–1952) remembered in large part for his aphorisms. Signed poem Humor “G. Santayana,” one page, 5.75 x 7.5, April 17, 1946, Rome. "Humor, The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. But as it nerveless the world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. But as it nevertheless intends all the time to be something different and highly dignified, t the next moment it corrects and checks and tries to cover up the absurd thing it was; so that a conventional world, a world of masks, is superimposed on the reality and passes in every sphere of human interest for the reality itself. Humor is the perception of this illusion, the fact allowed to pierce here and there through the convention, while the convention continues to be maintained, as if we had not observed its absurdity.
George Santanya Signed poem Humor
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