Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and breath of Scripture? Can you not see his promised land flowing with peanut butter and jelly; his apocalypse, in which the great whore of Babylon is given the cup of ginger ale of the fierceness of the wrath of God?
Robert Farrar CaponTags: satire
...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.
Terry CastleTags: satire mock-heroic self-burlesque
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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
George OrwellSatire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Vladimir Nabokov...Come on let’s see the degree.”
Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art.
“Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked.
“And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.
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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
David MitchellTags: writing satire postmodernism
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.
VoltaireTags: satire
Attend to your Configuration.
Edwin A. AbbottTags: satire
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
John Kennedy TooleTags: absurd satire attitude intellectual hilarious sheep ass contempt curmudgeon pompous meatsacks mouthbreathers pronouncements
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