Letting_Go_Is_All_We_Have_To_Hold_On_To_Humor_For_Humans

“The people's guide to paradox." “A redemptive tragicomedy of life’s inherent absurdity.” “Mind-bending brain-teasers!”
"For people in no shape for the human condition." "A real iconoclassic!" -- All humor is philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
went further and wrote: "An entire treatise of philosophy could be written that consists entirely of jokes." Author Evan
Hodkins similarly wrote: "The next religion will consist of nothing more than an expansive catalog of humor." And poet
Cesar Cruz famously said all art should "comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable." And now, dear reader, you
have stumbled upon a curious but relatable collection of all-original jokes that blends these ideas together into easy-todigest,
family-friendly, bite-sized nuggets -- "laughorisms"known as the The Eisenberg Principles! --- (This is the funsized
pocketbook edition. A large-print 5x8 version is also available, found by clicking on "Other Sellers" and exploring
the drop-down menu.) --- "The book that happened while you were making other plans!" "A revolutionary approach to
maintaining the status quo!" "For people in recovery from the self-help industry." --- (From the Preface) - It's rare to find a
trifecta of thought streams and modalities as unexpectedly intertwined as what we find in this one-of-a-kind collection of
original, one-sentence jokes, aphorisms (or "laughorisms") known as The Eisenberg Principles. In these one-sentence
vignettes, the fields of philosophy and psychology are married into uproariously funny trysts of paradoxical play, each one
like a piece of deluxe brain-candy which is no less serious in its treatment of the human condition as it is absurd. We are
not only afforded a chance to glimpse into the thoughts of this wondrously twisted thinker, we are challenged to follow
him into the surprising and impossible rabbit holes of language he unearths on every page. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The
test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time -- and still retain the
ability to function." This catalog of contradictions is like a compendium of modern Zen koans that puts you through
Fitzgerald's test, playing with the principles of paradox, polarity, and incongruity, taking you from the "comforts of cliché"
to the "chasms of contradiction" with just a few strokes of a pen. --- "The book about quieting the mind that everyone is
Letting Go Is All We Have To Hold On To: Humor For Humans
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Paperback: 262 pages Publisher: Curved-Space Comedy; 1 edition (June 5, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10:
1732296901 ISBN-13: 978-1732296909 Product Dimensions: 4 x 0.7 x 6 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View
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talking about!" “The pocketbook guide to people.” "Everything you need to know about futility in a single paperback." ---
"Many of the jokes Eisenberg unspools have the psychic charge of a Zen koan, the brevity and immediacy of a haiku, and
aim to capture the absurdity of an existence that can make the most sense when efforts to comprehend it are fully
abandoned." Charles Brennan, Boulder Daily Camera. "Eisenberg does his personal brand of ‘verbal gymnastics’ to stretch
the boundaries of logic and throw the semantics of everyday expressions into question." Michael Travers, EJI --- "The
desire to spread levity in the world weighs heavily upon me." Gregg Eisenberg, March 2020 ---- Enjoy a few clips of the
author performing this material in the Museum of Boulder (Colorado): https://cutt.ly/ArqYzDs Enjoy an in-depth
interview with the author about the streams of ideas running through his material: https://cutt.ly/6rqYlIb Curved-Space
Comedy: Beating the Conundrums since 2001. "We live vicariously, so you don't have to." www.curvedspacecomedy.com
--- for clips, snips, interviews and songs. --- “The best book about nothingness there is.” "A mind-expanding, heartopening,
gut-wrenching read." "Great for mediators, moderators, motivators, meditators, and medicators."