BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[ish mailian]

It's difficult to make strong arguments about the characters in these
satires, but I'm confident in my reading ....sorry not going to defend
it right now.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 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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