To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais.
Bio: Władysław Machejek was a communist official, an aspiring writer and hoax artist during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II.
