Unconscious Humour
“Writing to the Hon. Mrs. Watson in 1856, Charles Dickens says: ‘I have always observed within my experience that the men who have left home very young have, many long years afterwards, had the tenderest regard for it. That’s a pleasant thing to think of as one of the wise adjustments of this life of ours.’” [32a]
Homer’s Odyssey
From the description of the meeting between Ulysses and Telemachus it is plain that Homer considered it quite as dreadful for relations who had long been separated to come together again as for them to separate in the first instance. And this is about true. [32b]