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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Is it Satire or is it Funny?
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 23:01:20 EST
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> Satire:	 "Wit larded with malice".
> 			Shakespeare
>				[PAUL DUBUC]

A good dose of satire never hurt anyone.  Satire helps one to see
things one might not otherwise see, because it presents it in a fashion
that allows distancing yet suddenly clasps shut a connection that hits
very close to home.  It represents the finest cutting rhetorical tool,
presenting a scenario disjoint from the phenomenon at hand, letting the
reader/listener/observer make his/her own connection and realization,
without resorting to flippancy and obfuscation to make the point.
Your opinion of satire bespeaks a desire not to ever have to see those
things.  So be it.

The same thing goes for sacrilege.  As I used to say, "Providing the
minimum daily adult requirement of sacrilege..."
-- 
"Wait a minute.  '*WE*' decided???   *MY* best interests????"
					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr