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Nov. 25th, 2002 09:47 am
jazzfish: Jazz Fish: beret, sunglasses, saxophone (Default)
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Minor revelation: satire relies heavily on intent. Hence, if intent is bunk, then satire is worthless, because who knows it's satire? Especially older satire, such as A Modest Proposal; it's trivially easy to scream "You monster!" and ignore it.
(Thanks to Prog for sparking this train of thought.)
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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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