Originally Posted by issybird
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.
One could take paragraphs to discuss everything happening in those two sentences, but it's just plain funny on the face of it, too.
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