I found several levels of humor in this. In addition to the overall satire, there really were laugh out loud moments for me. Joyboy getting an annual card that Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven, the Dreamer and his church without walls, Sambo's little parrot head reposing on a pillow in a tiny casket - I could go on.
And Waugh's prose is continually a joy.
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While he spoke some young people had emerged from the bosky and stood waiting his summons to embark; oblivious Paolos and Francescas emerging from their nether world in an incandescent envelope of love. One girl blew bubbles of gum like a rutting camel but her eyes were wide and soft with remembered pleasure.
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One could take paragraphs to discuss everything happening in those two sentences, but it's just plain funny on the face of it, too.