BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Jochen Stremmel]

If Ernie is a fool then in a Shakespearean sense, somebody who has savvy
and freedom to speak the truth like in that paragraph about the genesis of
the Internet Thomas quoted from.

2016-02-28 13:46 GMT+01:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> 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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