M & D misc. Proportionality for proper effect

[Jochen Stremmel]

Ad hoc I'd say: NOTHING is beyond satire.
Think of the Modest Proposal alone. Or the bomb.

And where Kraus states in his far too famous first sentence:

Nothing occurs to me about Hitler. ("Mir faellt zu Hitler nichts ein.")

he to whom occurred anything about any thing, the first satirist of his
time, only wrote another 300 pages where the name of H. is mentioned more
than anybody other's, if I remember correctly.

2018-04-22 13:10 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> 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.
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