A moment out from the philosophy to laughter:

Chris Slane

Tis a neat reworking of a Christian myth of the virgin birth is it not? Kinda brings it down to earth. Rather than choosing among the given possibilities, it is an inventing of other possibilities--as Bataille might say.

Laughter tends to go beyond the synthesis of the given possibilities. Laughter points to the unknowable, the unpredictable. It wants to obtain at the end of history the chance that subverts history.