an icepick through the keyhole

My Daily Show Indecision 2004 DVDs arrived in the post today, along with another package, a thick, scholarly tome of nearly a thousand pages published in 1975 which traces and analyses the history and anatomy of a literary phenomenon that stretches across all of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day, a genre that continues to capture an indelible hold on our imaginations, from the time we hit puberty (and perhaps before that) and long into adulthood. It is a long, grand tradition that frankly, hasn't received all that much scholarship, and as far as I know, this is the only book to deal with it at such length.

It's title? "Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor" by G. Legman.

I'll be in my bunk.