“A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
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Wendy Doniger (1940) American Indologist
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“The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.”
Aleksandr Pushkin book Eugene Onegin
Source: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 6, st. 30.
Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer
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David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
