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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom."--Stephen Fry. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An encyclopedic reference features words of wisdom from Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, and Mae West, in a book organized by eight different categories and indexed according to author and subject.
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