M & D misc. Proportionality for proper effect

[Mark Kohut]

Not gonna disagree.

I was writing of our author only, of course.

And, yes there is the bomb in his major work but death itself?

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

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