Any incident is comic that calls our attention to the physical in a person, when it is the moral side that is concerned.

–Henri Bergson, “Laughter,” quoted in (a footnote to) Caroline Walker Bynum, “In Praise of Fragments: History in the Comic Mode”–introduction to Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

I already have two epigraphs for the novel-in-progress (working title: New Wineskins), and three seems pretentious… but if I need a spare, this one’s pretty awesome. I’m so excited about this book.