A Word about Words IX of XIII, or, When you tell a joke

When you tell a joke, the words themselves make the difference.  It makes all the difference in the world, the difference of a world, of taste or tastelessness, of a faithfulness to context or faithlessness, to say ass instead of rear in the course of a joke, or butt instead of rear or ass, or behind instead of all the others, or posterior, or gluteus, or a hodgepodge or mixture of them.  With the words the joke changes, its charge, its atmosphere, its effect.  So it is with all words and whatever they participate in, whatever they affect or effect.