M & D misc. Proportionality for proper effect

[Mark Kohut]

Thinking of proportionality, necessary and lacking in so many kinds of
exchanges in the world, this:

EVERYONE, almost every notion in TRP's works are
made fun of, skewered, satirized, etc. as we've all said.
Except slavery in M & D, right?

What?  Two powerful unfunny scenes and a couple--three mentions by Dixon?

THIS shows the human worst that TRP cannot laugh at and puts in our face.
No jokes.

Yet, thinking again of Joseph T on the growth of awareness of slavery in
the US, & the world, maybe,
it holds the proportional position in M & D's world that we might say it
held in the times.
A  small place but with some
like D & M, the counterforce so to speak, unable to stomach it.

Somehow, thinking of proportionality, I am also reminded of the way 9/11 in
BLEEDING EDGE is
--in the stillness of the city and the prose,-- commented on movingly here
on the List, imho--presented.
That too was beyond satire.