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Originally Posted by issybird
That's awful, but it's intended to be awful. I'll cite Seinfeld as a modern equivalent in the same vein. Dumas is mocking the Musketeers pretty explicitly. We're supposed to enjoy the ride at the same time as we realize that they're not all they're cracked up to be, or consider themselves to be.
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Well, Issy, you just must be
so much more discerning and intellectual than so many of us here, because queerly enough, a very large number of us neither found it funny, nor read into it
any intimation that Dumas was making fun of his creations. I certainly found no such indication. As I said before, those who love it, fine, love it. That's certainly your prerogative.
Hitch