We might as well laugh at ourselves and at the imperfection around us. Still, he was cautious. He warned us to thread our way between merriment and ridicule. But some monastic orders warned that humor harbors another danger, more grave than ridicule. The joke is sprung when something turns into something else.
Words are the house where humor lives.
And wordplay means saying two things at once. It means juggling with the truth. That dilemma weighs in my own life. I write fairly simply and directly. I speak to you in 6th or 7th-grade prose.