Joke Meets Problem. Relevant and Irrelevant Surprises
2012 in english
Good stories work because the narrator usually does everything to entertain his or her readers with well-aimed surprises. However, in today’s world it has become increasingly difficult for storytellers to fabricate good surprises with perceptible ease. In previous times we let ourselves be surprised, today we know how to construct surprises artificially. A joke is a surprise for a momentary mind flash – but what exactly is a surprise? A kind of observation that directs the focus on the specific way in which it is observed? Or maybe a gift which creates a hiatus in the course of events?