We here at “Adventures in Irony” love theories of humor. Especially theories that let us categorize humors, because “categorize” is ancient Greek for “harangue and declaim.”
We’re fascinated by melancholic, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic humors. We’ve experimented with these and also with inspirational and expirational forms or “styles” of delivering the various humors. Or, as the crass say, respectively, the retentive and the expulsive forms. ...