Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things _ even tragedy _ with a sense of irony. There__ some truth in it; it__ pretty stupid of them, though. Humor won__ save you; it doesn__ really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn__ matter how brave you are, how reserved, or how much you__e developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That__ when you stop laughing. In the end there__ just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end, there__ only death.
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People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things _ even tragedy _ with a sense of irony. There__ some truth in it; it__ pretty stupid of them, though. Humor won__ save you; it doesn__ really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn__ matter how brave you are, how reserved, or how much you__e developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That__ when you stop laughing. In the end there__ just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end, there__ only death.
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