The Odd One In Quotes

“Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults-worse, as a corruption at the level of our very being or bare life.”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy

“it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy

“If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy

“Jupiter promises us infallible happiness, fortune, a thousand blessings, and a brave son. Isn't this what everybody wants?”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy

“It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy

“comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather than pain. Yet this by no means implies that comedy is distinguished from tragedy by what one would call today a "positive attitude," "positive thinking," the ability to find something positive and satisfactory even in the worst situations.”
― Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy