[He's been looking all twenty something of those years of his.]
Tell me, when a play goes wrong, would you rather cry because it's ruined, or laugh at the disaster?
[In a life full of misery, at some point the only reaction you can have is to step back and laugh at it, for your own sake. Sometimes that applied to the misery of others' too, but in the end everyone shares the same miserable situation. It's just that Gogol's part is of the fool, who knows the story is staged, able to see the curtain and audience, unable to leave or integrate with the other characters. When he points an laughs, it's a disruption, and no one else can see where he's coming from.]
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[He's been looking all twenty something of those years of his.]
Tell me, when a play goes wrong, would you rather cry because it's ruined, or laugh at the disaster?
[In a life full of misery, at some point the only reaction you can have is to step back and laugh at it, for your own sake. Sometimes that applied to the misery of others' too, but in the end everyone shares the same miserable situation. It's just that Gogol's part is of the fool, who knows the story is staged, able to see the curtain and audience, unable to leave or integrate with the other characters. When he points an laughs, it's a disruption, and no one else can see where he's coming from.]