Did he mean to illustrate by this the way in which emotional strain tends to lapse for a brief moment into laughter?
[49] Op. cit., pp. 163, 208.
[50] See Les Passions de l’áme, 2ème partie, art. 25.
[51] Co-operative teasing, when it methodically “nags” a boy because he happens, for example, to take the unfashionable side in some political dispute, making his school-life a torment, had—with all deference to apologetic headmasters, be it said—better change its name.
[52] Given by Stanley Hall in the article, “The Psychology of Tickling,” etc., already quoted.
[53] Valuable beginnings may be found here and there; for example, in the entertaining volume of a French comedian, Le Rire, par (B. C.) Coquelin, cadet.
[54] Iliad, ii., 212 ff.
[55] Loc. cit.
[56] There is, of course, often a reciprocal effect in these cases, the non-compliant intruder serving to show up the absurd monotony of the row.
[57] See an article, “The Analytical Humorist,” by H. D. Traill, Fortnightly Review (N.S.), vol. lx., p. 141.