"Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."

from FaintedInk: There's a thing when you read if you're a 'reader' and the thing is nose stuck too close to the page as breath holding you move through the book. It's like you meet the book in the store, you turn to your random page (mine is 78 but everyone has something different), you read the page, a line jumps out, you say fuuuuuucccck you buy the book, you can't wait to get home, you get home, you take off your clothes, slowly methodically you open the book, and you begin inside the book, hips trembling with each turning page, hours and hours and hours go by until...as you move through...you finish the book with a sigh, with a reflective look towards and away from that last page and then once in a while and only once in a while, you turn on the bath you slide in and you re-open the book and read it all again.