George Bailey compared the Lewis of the university to a ‘school book description of Friar Tuck,’ with a pronouncedly hearty manner and a booming voice ‘given over to what someone once called “rhetorical guffawing” (“Ho, ho, ho, so you think Milton was an ascetic, do you? ho, ho! You are quite wrong there.”).’

-Terry Lindvall, Surprised by Laughter, p. 44

This really has nothing to do with anything. I just love the phrase ‘rhetorical guffawing’ and find myself wishing I was a rhetorical guffawer…or not. It would probably get obnoxious after a while.

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