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The pun fun!

By Guru

Baroque in Hackney says “The pun is mighter than the sword“:

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I think puns are pretty much the highest form of humour – using the most parts of the brain to the most effect …

The occasion? Edmund Wilson’s advice to Nabokov that Maud referred to:

… do please refrain from puns, to which I see you have a slight propensity. They are pretty much excluded from serious journalism here.

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