At the beginning of every summer I’ve featured on this website a ground-breaking, norm-shattering series of crosswords. Three years ago I engaged in a six-part existential meditation-in-crosswords on the nature of being (Crosswords 029-034). Next, in a four-part series (Crosswords 081-084), I examined the deep syntactic structures that underlie our language, determining not just how we make meaning, but what we can mean. Last year I sounded a warning in three puzzles against the encroachment of decadence in our society (Crosswords 135-137). And last week I embarked on an exploration, which continues today, of the essence of comedy—illustrated with paintings by John Atkinson GrimsHAw whose titles also contain the consecutive letters HA. Interspersed with these will be recommendations for the nine volumes of Frances Trollope’s laughter-inducing Widow Barnaby trilogy, illustrated with paintings by Frederick Daniel HArdy.
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