ABSTRACT
Just as a Peter Arno picture can be funny without a caption, so a mental image can be funny without wit. Perhaps “mental image” is not quite the right term, for some people assert that they never see actual pictures inside their heads. But all people have the faculty of recalling things and appreciating their qualities when they are not present, and in all people this is different from trying to think, or reason, or arrive at some conclusion. Therefore the distinction between witty jokes and ludicrous perceptions continues substantially unchanged even when the perceptions are only imagined.
The Shanghai rooster,—Josh Bihngs said,—is built on piles like a sandy hill crane…. They often go to sleep standing, and some-times pitch over, and when they do they enter the ground like a pickax.
