Ars Punica
“Punning is an Art of Harmonious Jingling upon Words, which passing in at the Ears and falling upon the Diaphragma, excites a titillary Motion in those Parts, and this being convey’d by the Animal Spirits into the Muscles of the Face raises the Cockles of the heart.”
Thomas Sheridan (1687-1753), Ars Punica, 1719.




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The room is, as yet, filled with smoke and apprehension.