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It's one of those funny jokes life plays on you.
More consistently than almost anyone else he has managed to ferret out the little jokes life unknowingly, and irregularly, doles out and the sly or ridiculous or quizzical or charmingly impolite moments that tend to whiz across the horizon unnoticed.
But this peculiarity epitomizes a fundamental message of Ms. Ruhl's odd and enchanting play: We may never come to a full understanding of the jokes life plays, but the wisest and possibly noblest response is to have a good laugh anyway.
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This 2006 single is a perfect pastiche of Pet Shop Boys-style louche decadence, played with such a straight face it's hard to know if it's a joke: "Life is such a chore/ When it's … boring".
Before these, we have a triptych of serio-comic novels – The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere and Farewell Waltz – vividly evoking the milieu of postwar and communist-era Czechosolovakia without staking out a claim to the formal originality that would become Kundera's hallmark.
Like a cosmic Seinfeld joke, life quickly becomes a show about nothing.
Honorable mentions: jerking off, joke (life is one), jail (avoid it).
Honourable mentions: jerking off, joke (life is one), jail (avoid it).
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Her frequent jokes about life with Shan Jiang, her former coach and husband since 2006, in courtside interviews helped Li become a hit at the Australian Open.
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