http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1701 We focus on a category of humour devices, at the meet of discourse analysis and of weak anticipation (in the form of a literary playful ascription of causality transgressing on the unavailability of the future). In Part I of the present paper I exemplified a goal-and-plan driven formal analysis of what makes humour tick, in a given literary text : Rosenzweig's century-old satire of life in America, whose name he mock-etymologizes by an apocriphal anecdote on Columbus. Full text issues Volume 12 Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence fr Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:49:12 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:49:26 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1701 0