<< s the art of sarcasm really that lost? Or is that
some can't see beyond their own prejudices? >>
Since the sentence is meant to be answered by me . . . . No,
I had not forgotten the question. I was still trying to frame
an answer, If you remember, I wrote that I ended the essay
before I finished it. I couldn't decide for myself where I
stood. See, I remember that the whole point of Huckleberry
Finn is Huck saying, "All right, I'll go to hell!" because he
rejects his entire society's racist point of view. That's the
punchline of the novel, if you will. Because he rejects his
world, he goes off into the wilderness at the end of the
book, into the uncharted lands. (Any Rara-avian can connect
that with every book we discuss.) Huck says the words; I
wished Marlowe said them. Yeah, I know sarcasm and
irony.
(Irony equals intellectual sarcasm.) I wish Chandler was
clearer, that he actually said "All right, I'll go to hell!"
I wanted him to say it, and not have me mouth the words for
him, and tell myself, yeah, that's what Chandler would've
said, I know it. But I don't know it. I don't hear Chandler
saying it. I don't hear Marlowe saying it. I am not convinced
by the silence. Can't see beyond my own prejudices? Hey, why
should I be any different than anybody else?
Frederick Zackel
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