High-brow humor, part 2

Courtesy of Disclaimerwill:

The valedictory speech was memorable only for my brother's interjection. I paraphrase the speaker: "'We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight. We cannot ascend the stairs above us without the foundation of the stairs below us. Stairs. Stairs to the left of me, stairs to the right. I'm stuck in the middle with stairs.' Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote these very words in his essay entitled-"

"'The Walk of Shame,'" muttered T-Bone.

It may not read like much, but T-Bone delivered it so sublimely that it left me shaking with laughter for quite some time.