1. About that Brooks column ....
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Replying to @HeerJeet
2. Authorial intention is deeply unfashionable in literary criticism but remains essential when dealing with works of satire.
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3. It makes a huge difference whether Swift really wanted to eat Irish babies or wanted to attack English policy in Ireland.
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4. Makes a huge difference if Brooks is writing a knowing self-satire or thinks he is mocking other people.
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5. If Brooks did have him self in mind, then "Bravo!" If not, there is something very sad about that column.
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@ephraim_quin no, this is Brooks: "utters his cries for civility and good manners, which are really just pleas for mercy"
8:03 PM - 16 Dec 2013
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