Abstract
“Satire is humor on an errand. It is wit used with a vengeance, rejecting the facades of the godly, insisting on reminding those within the Holy of Holies that their pretense is showing. … Join the satirist as he mixes humor with wit, as he tars and feathers, not God or Christ or Moses, but the holy swindlers, the ecclesiastical con men, and seeks to puncture stuffiness and to fumigate the odors of sanctity.”
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