Tamir's reading of Watts: as you grow older and wiser, your inner king and inner jester draw closer until they become one, so you can laugh at your own misfortune sooner.
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- Tragedy-to-comedy time shrinks with age
A sign of growing wiser is that the gap between something awful happening and it becoming a funny story shrinks, from months or years to a day.