afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Mark Kohut]

Ray,

Since you so genuinely wanted to know why I believed what I argued, I want to ask re this post: 

IF satire is not "the only weapon" of the writer, as you write, then What do you--should we---"take seriously' in TRPs work(s)? 

Mark


> Because the jumping off point for my posts in this
> thread(s) was a "duality" on one side of which was satire, I
> may have given you the impression that I believe that the
> occult, conspiracy theories, etc... are present in the works
> only as targets of satire.  That is not what I am
> saying, as I think later posts should make clear. 
> Satire is not the only weapon in the author's critical
> arsenal.  
> What I do maintain is that the occult, etc... are subjected
> by the author to the same critique as is, say, "scientific
> rationalism", that the presence of these views in the texts
> does not mean that we are intended to "take them seriously",
> and that the texts do not endorse any such views.
> 
> 
> Ray
> 
>