P's farcical figures: small, short lived, flat.

[David Morris]

Some readers have their limits, red, blight & kablooie boom lines.
Some readers want blood with the brains.
Fools are fine, cartoony or tragic.  But are they polemics?  Or chess
ciphers? Or bad puns?
Forgive the reader who tires at endless wit.
Heart pulse might revive her.

On Thursday, September 12, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

>
> P stuffs his works with these figures. Other major authors, Dickens is
> usually mentioned, have done the same. Call them cartoons, if you prefer,
> but to argue that cartoons, minor, flat, short lived characters are a
> weakness is silly. While P is not Dickens, is not a 19th century author, so
> his characters are not really Dickensian, they are, as are the figures in
> Dickens's novels, comic figures. Like flat cartoon characters, we get
> balloons of their thoughts, often from a narrative voice that assumes a
> voice, a diction, tone to fit the character. This is not that difficult for
> an author, not one of P's talent, certainly. It does, however, challange
> the reader. So, we have a novelist making cartoons to strut and fret an
> hour of farce on the vaudeville, some of this is, given th corny, juvenile,
> quirky sense of humor it mimics and mocks, parodies, and stylizes, and the
> author's penchant for puerile puns and goofy adolescent dry humping the
> blow up dolls under the bed while the orchestra plays a kazoo requiem for a
> falling body that splats on the sidewalk on that sacred day...and...why
> take offense or get defensive...or serious....it's only a figure of farce?
>
> Does not a farce figure bleed?
> P is a Shylark!
> He got my pound of death. I wish he didn't get my dollars for the stones
> he bled with his edges.
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