"When my father and grandfather committed acts of penmanship, they were often, generally by the women at the table or in the car with them, begged if not ordered to cease at once. Maybe puns are a guy thing - I don't know. I can't see how anybody who claims to love language can fail to marvel at the beautiful slipperiness of meanings that puns, like aquarium nets, momentarily catch and bring shimmering to the surface. Puns act to shatter or at least compromise meaning; a pun condenses unrelated, even opposing, meanings, like a collapsing dwarf star, into a singularity. Maybe it's this anti semantic vandalism that leads so many people to shun and revile them."
- Michael Chabon writing in praise of Norton Juster's classic
The Phantom Tollbooth (50th Anniversary Edition)
I love puns. And to have my feelings on the matter so eloquently defended by one of my favorite writers, writing in a piece praising one of my other favorite pieces of writing, is truly awesome. Well done.
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