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 Capon

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...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 Castle

Mots clés satire mock-heroic self-burlesque



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Mots clés politics books future writing writers economics satire conspiracy dystopia authors apocalypse espionage end-of-the-world maine dystopian-fiction dubai economic-collapse small-press spy-thriller



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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 Orwell

Mots clés life tyranny satire



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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Vladimir Nabokov

Mots clés satire parody



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...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.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Mots clés humor talent college humour satire funny talents sad-but-true university degree qualifications credentials gadfly universities college-degree university-of-life



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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 Mitchell

Mots clés writing satire postmodernism



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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

Voltaire

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Attend to your Configuration.

Edwin A. Abbott

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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

John Kennedy Toole

Mots clés absurd satire attitude intellectual hilarious sheep ass contempt curmudgeon pompous meatsacks mouthbreathers pronouncements



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