Blog #6 - Blog Audit

I notice that all my blogs either mention the use of humor or contain my attempts to be funny. I've certainly written and talked about humor more in this class than any other English class I've had before. This is partly related to the use of dark humor in many of the texts we've read, but I think it has more to do with the composition of students in our class and the freedom we are given to write about what we want. I always notice and appreciate the use of humor in literature, but it doesn't seem to be discussed much in most classes. I read Huckleberry Finn in an English that will go unnamed last semester. Through two weeks of discussion, no one mentioned how Mark Twain's sense of humor and irony contributed to the story. During the latter part of Twain's life, he was widely considered the funniest man in America, and today, I would argue, his legacy lives on as much for his clever witticisms as it does for his contribution to American Literature. I say this knowing many people will disagree. For some reason, humor is never looked at seriously in literature, like being funny is beneath some intellectuals. I will never understand this. To me, humor and laughter are two of the most essential traits of being human. Certainly, there are many things that seperate us from the other creatures on this earth, but I think it is worth noting we are the only animal that can recognize irony. If an infinite number fo monkeys sat behind an infinite number of typewriters and typed for an infinite amount of time, they would eventually type Huckleberry Finn in its entirety without errors, but they would not recognize it was funny. I don't really know where I 'm going with that, but I do like to picture rows of monkeys (like this guy https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4sudNlWILgTrQ7dh7b2nhTuy9Svnt5nZCFwLjvc_fr-Anc78Sv-mPcMmHW5qNUPfsxHfiWr-Wt1-w6h5ZMZj-KfaatD1PYm5A2WzFvKCRF5ukNk8KyEpbzs0MmxwdSpeOm4oWRxzFzPZ/?imgmax=800) pounding away on typewriters as one supervisor monkey patrols the area, making sure everyone is typing.