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But as a result of effectively claiming membership in that category-that is, in our species-he triggers an aversive response on our part. Who's Afraid of Mr. Creosote? Creosote is a monster and he incurs our disgust. So far the horror formula is realized. But two points need to be made. First, disgust, including disgust elicited by the violation of our standing norms and categories, does not belong solely to the domain of the genre of horror. It is, as noted earlier, also a natural ingredient of comedy.
With the exception of the contradictions already considered, we can easily agree that every statement made in the dialogue is true, or at least verifiably true. Even so, the conditions that underwrite their truth, and the ways by which we would verify their truth, do not appear to account for why what the women are saying is absurd (or funny). For, the joke of the skit is that even though we completely understand the meanings of their sentences, we cannot make heads or tails of what they are sqying.
Ours is the laughter of justice-the laughter that obtains when we perceive that the punishment suits the crime ever so neatly. As already suggested, there is something medieval about the Creosote episode; indeed, a medieval theme runs throughout the fUm, including dungeons and the Grim Reaper (perhaps this is a result of taking up, and then dismissing, Roman Catholicism as a source of the meaning of life). In many ways, the scene is the modern equivalent of a morality play, an allegory of gluttony and its consequences.