Umberto Eco wrote an essay called "Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball" that I quite like / find interesting ("Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cl

Umberto Eco wrote an essay called "Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball" that I quite like / find interesting ("Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us."): https://web.archive.org/web/20150503233823/www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_casablanca.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150503233823/www.themodernword... = https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/eco.html https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/eco.html