
The Pantheon, Rome by JMWTurner on Flickr.
La Belle Personne, 2008
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Lit. Meme - 3 Genres: Literary Nonsense
Notable Authors: Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Jhonen Vasquez, Dr. Seuss
Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that uses sensical and nonsensical elements to defy language conventions or logical reasoning. Even though the most well-known form of literary nonsense is nonsense verse, the genre is present in many forms of literature.
The effect of nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than a lack of it. Nonsense is often humorous in nature, although its humor is derived from its nonsensical nature, as opposed to most humor which is funny because it does make sense.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has his very own Explore tag.
Hear him at his most eloquent.
(via explore-blog)
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And it’s done.