We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. – Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. – Gilbert K. Chesterton