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jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
Penelope Gilliatt
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Penelope Gilliatt
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 25
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
Film Critic
Journalist
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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London
England
Comedy
Ideally
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Assassination
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Annihilation
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Anything
Total
Without
Jokes
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Humor
Pleasurable
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