"there is a serpent that wants teeth, and consequently cannot bite; but if its vomit (to which it is much addicted) happens to fall upon any thing, a certain rottenness or corruption ensues... and they frequently emit a poisonous juice; whereof whoever drinks, that person's brains fly out of his nostrils."

Swift: Rally Edition 2: Gathering the Evidence

Check out the amazing array of available spoilers.

The New Math: Let a joke = seriousness... Divide to unify...

Walrus magazine, Nov. 2010

Tom and Taylor are not alone

There are well-developed and very ambitious satirists everywhere.  

Can you beat this?:

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

Type	Cooperative
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium
Products	Financial Telecommunication
Employees	> 2000

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT") operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financial institutions. SWIFT also markets software and services to financial institutions, much of it for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362 bank identifier codes (BICs) are popularly known as "SWIFT codes".
The majority of international interbank messages use the SWIFT network.

And then I think we also need to think about Tom Swift

I'm just sayin'...

She'd rather sing about her personal life than talk about it

Is satire TOO mean?




"Satire uses laughter as a weapon and against a butt that exists outside the work itself" M.H. Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms



But as Swift points out in his own ironic "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" 1739:


Yet malice never was his aim;
He lashed the vice, but spared the name...
His satire points at no defect,
But what all morals may correct...

These lines offer guidance and a direction for 'reading' Taylor Swift who clearly influences me. I'd better get to work on that!

Satire is a sort of glass,

wherein beholders do generally discover 

everybody's face 

but their own;

O Canada!

which is the chief reason for 

that kind of reception 

it meets in the world, 

and that so very few 

are offended with it.

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