Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety.(In his introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)
-Salma Khadra Jayyusi
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