specialist jokes

At the risk of spoiling one of the many pleasurable moments in Endless Things, I will say that the scene in which Bloom, Wink and Quispel appear in their Caprice is laugh-out-loud funny to those who get it in the first place.

I shall now try to get on to other parts of my reading and avoid engaging in my own peculiarly lame jokes. One reason I appreciate well-timed humor is that so much of my own is dismally ill-paced and hence not very funny.