So I’ve been away from the Internet for a few days on a top-secret mission—sorry, can’t divulge much more except that it involved serious disguises—and I came home to learn that, if I understand the media narrative correctly, some guy in southern California made a movie so offensively stupid that it moved people to attack our embassies abroad (it had to happen eventually…), and now they hate us again, despite all our generosity, and our eternal enemies, the extremists, went and took advantage of what was really just a giant misunderstanding (cause really, it was just one dumb guy in southern California, right?) to, get this, kill us. Talk about an overreaction! Here’s hoping calmer heads prevail.
In the meantime, here’s a somewhat subtler analysis. Plus a pretty picture and a Khlebnikov poem and an almost happy story:
Invocation Of Laughter
O, laugh, laughers!
O, laugh out, laughers!
You who laugh with laughs, you who laugh it up laughishly
O, laugh out laugheringly
O, belaughable laughterhood - the laughter of laughering laughers!
O, unlaugh it outlaughingly, belaughering laughists!
Laughily, laughily,
Uplaugh, enlaugh, laughlings, laughlings
Laughlets, laughlets.
O, laugh, laughers!
O, laugh out, laughers!