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Read the following passage and answer the THREE questions that follow.
You may laugh at a hat, but what you are making fun of, in this case, is not the
piece of felt or straw, but the shape that men have given it, -- the human caprice whose
mould it has assumed. It is strange that so important a fact, and such a simple one too, has
not attracted to a greater degree the attention of philosophers. Several have defined man as
"an animal which laughs." They might equally well have defined him as an animal which is
laughed at; for if any other animal, or some lifeless object, produces the same effect, it
is always because of some resemblance to man, of the stamp he gives it or the use he puts it
to.
Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which
usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing
effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and
unruffled. Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than
emotion. I do not mean that we could not laugh at a person who inspires us with pity, for
instance, or even with affection, but in such a case we must, for the moment, put our
affection out of court and impose silence upon our pity. In a society composed of pure
intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be
laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event
would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter.
Try, for a moment, to become interested in everything that is being said and done; act, in
imagination, with those who act, and feel with those who feel; in a word, give your sympathy
its widest expansion: as though at the touch of a fairy wand you will see the flimsiest of
objects assume importance, and a gloomy hue spread over everything. Now step aside, look
upon life as a disinterested spectator: many a drama will turn into a comedy. It is enough
for us to stop our ears to the sound of music, in a room where dancing is going on, for the
dancers at once to appear ridiculous. How many human actions would stand a similar test?
Should we not see many of them suddenly pass from grave to gay, on isolating them from the
accompanying music of sentiment? To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands
something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart. Its appeal is to intelligence, pure and
simple.
What does the author BEST mean when they say, โit seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled?โ
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Choice A is the correct answer.
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