Irony Humour Poor James Bond
Human beings are both laughing animals and also creatures that delight in a sense of superiority, and the one characteristic can conceal the other. Poor James Bond had a little finger broken by a torturing brute in a early novel; as Bond cried out, his tormentor sneered: Where’s ya sensayuma? The political activist in London who recently took a bat to a statue of Margaret Thatcher and lopped off its head described his act as a piece of artistic expression adding: We can ill afford to ever lose our sense of humor. I was left with no choice other than to do this act of satirical humor. Anyone seeking to understand why Australia is a world exporter of enraged radical feminists (Germaine Greer, et al.) need not go much further than jokes.
· Greer German [Criterion]
