/lit/ - Literature

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"[Al Capp] put in his strip just exactly what he saw around him. But our trained incapacity to relate one situation to another enabled his sardonic realism to be mistaken for humor. The more he showed the capacity of people to involve themselves in hideous difficulties, along with their entire inability to turn a hand to help themselves, the more they giggled."

"Satire", said Swift, "is a glass in which we see every countenance but our own."

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