. . . that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
- Horace Walpole

keep Walpole's thought in mind while checking out
the video below

it features a young and cerebral Woody Allen, who
tells us about his second most powerful obsession -
comedy

as Allen discusses his tendency to see the comedic
possibilities in just about any situation, ponder about
the source of his humor -

does his comedy stem chiefly from thinking, as the
quotation by Walpole suggests?

or does it seem to flow from other sources as well;
sources such as underlying feeling state?

perhaps the relationship between comedy/tragedy
on the one hand and thinking/feeling on the other is
too complex to be expressed in a sentence or two




by the way, Allen's first and most powerful
obsession is the subject of this second video