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The Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" debuts Sunday, and E&P has a preview of this tripartite humor section. It apparently starts on page 41, right after Safire, who we're sure can't be thrilled with the development. (After all these years, etymological humor won't seem nearly as funny anymore.) It contains:

• The first installment of a 14-week serial by Elmore Leonard, called "Comfort to the Enemy."

• A humorous essay running under the rubric "True-Life Tales," this one by novelist Elizabeth Gilbert, a self-described "recovering yoga purist" currently "working her boobs off trying."

• The first installment of "a new kind of comic strip" by graphic novelist Chris Ware, which will take place within a single, talking building and will reveal the thoughts of the building itself.

We're most intrigued by the idea of a talking apartment building, which sounds like the sort of place in which the Curbed folks would like to live. But right now — because it's late on Friday, and because we're a little shvitzy and fried — we're choosing to imagine the building as 229 West 43rd Street, and we're hearing its interior monologue: "They took the best years of my life, and now they leave me for some sexy young building." Of course, that would have to be done as a Lichtenstein, not a Ware. Its final panel: "I'd rather sink than call Punch for help!"

We have no idea what we're babbling on about any longer, and we're sure we make no sense. We'll just go sit quietly now in the corner, waiting for the Sunday paper.

Preview: A Close Look at First-Ever 'Funny Pages' in 'The N.Y. Times,' Debuting on Sunday [E&P]