Quote by Arthur Koestler
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic k

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. – Arthur Koestler

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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl

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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. – Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849

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