BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Thomas Eckhardt]

To me this suggests that your argument that P depicts Ernie as a fool is 
rather weak.

Am 27.02.2016 um 18:43 schrieb ish mailian:
> Of course, P hedges his satire of Ernie in several ways, not the least
> of which is that the text also suggests that his daughters are
> attracted to fascists and pigs not because of anything on the Tube or
> in Film or mass produced culture (the Tube) but because of something
> in them, something in females,  just because they are female, or, to
> complicate matters, because of some variation on the Electra Complex
> ...etc.
>
> Hedging is not quite what he does, it's that ironies, like Jewish
> Lefty raised Girl falls for German Commodities trader with fascist
> face of Hunky Nazi Hollywood Star than gets fucked in the ass by a
> Neo-Con and ends up with his Wife talking US South American
> politics.....and on and on turning the old daisy chain of screws so
> that we get  hysterically inflated to the bursting point of a million
> laughs on every absurdity turned inside out and backward.
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