Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous
I didn`t want him to go. I`d never felt so safe and secure with anyone in my life.....I wanted to tell him everything that had ever happened in my few years. There were a million things I wanted to ask him.
Again the hug, again the swirl of skirts, again the super-sandals squeaking away down the linoleum. Then silence. And peace.
How to Cook Your Daughter,
so it should sell well.
(Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about) Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.