"Comedy does not tell of famous and powerful men, but of base and ridiculous creatures, though not wicked; and it does not end with the death of the protagonists. It achieves the effect of the ridiculous by showing the defects and vices of ordinary men....Truth reached by depicting men and the world as worse than they are or than we believe them to be..."
-Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose
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