If we are going to deal with epigrams, we must first distinguish between wit and humor. Humor makes you laugh, as with every good joke that someone tells you. Like the loony in the bin telling the other loony who is painting the wall, "Hold on to your brush, I am about to move the ladder." Or James Thurber writing, "Poe . . . was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker in the American nineteenth century. He …
SOURCE: John Simon at 01:50PM on December 5, 2013