A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. - Max Eastman

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Max Eastman: "A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

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Expect	Goal	Joke	Just
Land	Listeners	Mind	Nowhere
Plausible	Play	Process	Start
Sudden	Thing	Toward	Trick
Twist	Where

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