The Bisquit Principle

Humor is the quality that appeals to the sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous. Humor is not conforming but it can be absurd and unreasonable combining fun with tears laughter with sadness; it can appear foolish or wise; it can ridicule the pompous and strip the emperor of his clothes. Bisquit the hero of our story is a humorous character; therefore he is both funny and sad foolish and wise-he is a jester; he himself becomes the victim of evildoers because when evil is ridiculed it seeks revenge. Bisquit bears some similarity to Don Quixote de la Mancha the fearless knight of old and some of Bisquits friends carry the names of the knights entourage. Don Quixote wanted to become a knight errant to redress all kinds of grievances and exposing himself to perils and dangers that he would overcome and thus gain eternal fame and renown. We laugh at the antics of Don Quixote because of his delusions. There is something humorous and pathetic about his madness. Bisquit on the other hand is not delusionary; he responds with naiveté and apparent seriousness to devious criminals and innocent victims of the twenty-first century. The first chapter in this book deals with the adventures of Bisquit as he tries to find the true value of science and art. In subsequent chapters Bisquit mocks both the innocent and the guilty with his Bisquit Principle. He makes his appearance as a senator from Washington as the savior of a big corrupt corporation as a scientific worker in a medical research laboratory as an arbiter in the fight for salmon between Indians and special-interest groups and as the sponsor of an alcoholic housewife. He would finally fall victim to those who would ruin our environment. Bisquit may appear funny but he is deadly serious.