<davidrow.ryoohki@pop3.hiway.co.uk> 05/08/97 09:44am >>>

As it should be. This was supposed to be a serious fic. It won't be a
serious fic if it had an element of comedy, would it? Hmmmm?  > 

When I wrote Ragnarok QAGenda, I intended it would be dark 
(especially relative to AMG, where it was set), but I still put  humour in it,
especially in the first parts.
And much British humour is dark; look at Monty Python! (it isn't just 
slapstick, look at some of the jokes carefully.)
To my mind, even a deadly serious fic needs a few elements of comedy,
or the occasional joke, or its about as enjoyable to read as banging 
your head against a wall...

To follow up on that, one could point out the porter scene in Macbeth,
which followed hard upon Duncan's murder, and yet always seems to
get a laugh in the theatre.  Not to mention the humor in many of Hamlet's
quibbles, or Mercutio and the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.  All tragedies, all
have humor in them...