"And he began to think of really comical things everywhere, the whole town, the
people walking in the streets, trying to look important, but he knew they
couldnt fool him, he knew how important they were, and the way they talked, big
business, and all of it pompous and fake, and it made him laugh, and he thought
of the preacher at the church, the fake way he prayed, O God, it is your will,
and nobody believing in prayers, and the important people with big automobiles,
Cadillacs and Packards, speeding up and down the country, as if they had some
place to go....and he was laughing at all the pathetic things in the world, the
things good people cried upon... the timid people being smashed inwardly by the
fat and cruel people, fat inside...
And then everything turned upside down, and he was crying, honest and truly
crying, like a baby, as if something has really happened, and he hid his face
in his arms, and his chest was heaving, and he was thinking he did not want to
live...the whole world, in a mess.
Then he began to cry again."
Saroyan, William (1934). 'Laughter', Daring young man on the flying trapeze:
191-200.
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