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One can say gravely that satire postulates an ideal condition of man or decency, and then despairs of it, and enjoys the despair, masochistically. But the joke must not be lost - the joke of statement, of sound, of rhythm, form, vocabulary, rhyme and surprise, Without the joke everything goes, and we may be left only with complaints, invective, or denunciation.
Oh dear! Doesn't frequent just get it all so typically wrong in so many ways. He doesn't even know what a joke is, to say nothing of all the subtleties which are essential to satire. All he is left with are the complaints, invective and denunciation. :yahoo_mini: And when challenged to make a rational answer, he can't. He absolutely can't!