Meaning of jokeyness | Babel Free

Examples

“‘The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.’ He paused, having astonished himself by this intemperate excursion into jokeyness.”

“Innumerable legends surround Louis [Armstrong]: some about his eating prowess in the old days, many about his unchallengeable strength as a player, some about his jokeyness and lack of respect for important occasions, others about his devotion to work.”

“With confidence I had begun to see that the comedy that had become my writing tone, the ability to make two or three jokes to the page, the jokeyness that was my double inheritance from my Trinidad background, however good, however illuminating, was also a way of making peace with a hard world; was on the other side of hysteria.”

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