Laughter is sacred (BE340)

[Mark Kohut]

Horst only gets the laugh......yes, it is a "profound insight" let's say but Horst doesn't get the rest of
what you write........
Horst is part of the problem. 



On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:12 AM, Martha Rooster-Singh <martharoostersingh at gmail.com> wrote:
  

Why does P give this profopund insight to Horst?  


  
If BE is what has been called a satire, not in the mode of GR (GR may be considered, and has been by several critcs, and with success, a Menippean Satire, an Anatomy, a Encyclopedic Narrative, Postmodern non-corrective Satire), but what is called "light-hearted satire", we should do well to give our attention to Horst's claim that laughter is sacred. Laughter, of course, is not essenatial to satire, and, is not its goal. In fact, as Horst explains, so much that is called humor is a sacralization of the profane consumer laugh track or  the mere use of satirical tools of irony, parody, and the like. 
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>BE is not meant to be a funny book. I may make us laugh, or smile, but rarely LOL, because it is light-hearted satire that seeks to humor us out of our collective paranoia and call attention to what we have made sacred----9-11, that Survivor Tree, the Flag, the Wars.    
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