"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." http://en.wikiq

"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White Odd: I just came across a similar analogy in Cory Doctorow's "Eastern Standard Tribe": "The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts."