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J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban says, "I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?"

Source: Despair

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