According to Bergson, "The first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly esoteric. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable."

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Bergson argues that the comic exists not only within the realm of the esoteric (those who are "in the know"), but also within the realm of the everyday and the mundane. He also suggests that a landscape may indeed be laughable under certain circumstances.

According to Bergson, "The First Point to Which Attention Should