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'''The Deep''' is a short early (1975) novel by [[John Crowley]].

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A visitor arrives from elsewhere on a mediaeval world. It soon becomes apparent that he (it) is only superfically human. Damaged in a skirmish between Protectors and the Just, he and we spend the rest of the book finding out how and why he was made and sent. Early on, Fauconred quotes their book to him, which says: "the world is founded on a pillar which isProfessional Humor''' Both outside and within a [[profession]] such as [[law]] there are
[[humor|jokes]] which serve to poke founded on the Deep". This turns out to be true.

Whilst a war of succession (apparently patterned on the [[Wars of the Roses]]) plays out, the visitor changes roles into secretary, then record at the absurdies of the profession
and relieve tension. Jokes about [[accountancy]] tend to address "creative
accounting". A speaker; and travels to the edge of the world to meet [[Leviathan]]. Meanwhile, the slow stable world which has been "immortal" because repeating for uncounted years begins to spiral into the unknown path of development.⏎
t a professional seminar will often break the ice
with a bit of professonal humor.
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==  External links ==
* http://home.att.net/~Storytellers/jcrowley.html "a strange and difficult book with some truly beautiful writing"
* http://pluto.spaceports.com/~mot/books/books7.htm#deepand References==

* ''Profession jokes'',  http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm. A large collection of jokes about professions: programmers, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, psychiatrists etc.