Original: In a lunatic asylum, there are two guys. One night, they decided not to live in the lunatic asylum. They decided to run away! In this way, they climbed onto the roof, where, across a narrow gap, they saw the roof of the city, extending in the moonlight, leading to freedom. At this time, the first person jumped over easily. But his friend, his friend dare not jump. You know, he was afraid of falling. Therefore, the first person thought of an idea, and he said, "Hey! I have a flashlight! I will use it to illuminate the gaps in the building. You can follow the light to come to me!" But the second person shook his head . He said: "What do you think of me? Are you a madman? You will turn off the flashlight when I am halfway."
At first glance, this is just a drunk joke. The premise for a joke is that both people are drunk, like A drunk doesn't know that he is drunk, and a madman will not admit that he is a madman. The lunatic asylum here means all the negative emotions, all the pain that cannibalize people’s hearts, or just a "bad day", so the two people chose to approach the "edge", which is the so-called roof, but as mentioned earlier, this joke The main premise is that both of them are lunatics, and no one can return to normal. Facing the gap, Batman successfully jumped over, but he is still a lunatic, he thinks he can integrate into this world like a normal person, and insists on the justice he thinks. Sometimes knowing that there is no point in sending these criminals back to Arkham, Batman still turned on the flashlight repeatedly, stubbornly carrying out the justice with a non-sensible behavior.
The clown has understood all of this, and the morbid world is shown to him in the story. He laughs at all the vulgar and ugly things around him, and at the same time he is inevitably affected by these things, and he is stared at by "the abyss." It is also because he understands that he can't get rid of it, so he laughs at them. His only dissatisfaction is Batman's constant denial. "You have to always pretend that life is meaningful, and all struggles are meaningful!" So he refused Batman's help, not because he was afraid of falling down like the joke, but because he knew to deal with this according to law. The method of turning on a flashlight to help others can't help him. Even if he crosses over, the sick world is still the same, everything he hates is the same, he can't be drunk and pretend to be sober like Batman, so the madness is still the same.
When the joke was over, Batman laughed too, maybe he realized that pushing the mental patient out of the gap is much easier than turning on a flashlight, or maybe he was laughing at himself as a lunatic who refused to admit it and didn't want to laugh out loud. . . . . .
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