The Fall’s satire aims at the delusion of human dignity, not at probity’s failings

Evidence

With the Fall, however, it is as if satire is returned to its origins in the grotesque. The Fall’s laughter does not issue from the commonsensical mainstream but from a psychotic Outside. This is satire in the oneiric mode of Gillray, in which invective and lampoonery becomes delirial, a (psycho) tropological spewing of associations and animosities, the true object of which is not any failing of probity but the delusion that human dignity is possible. … For Jarry, as for Smith, the incoherence and incompleteness of the obscene and the absurd were to be opposed to the false symmetries of good sense. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1134

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the grotesque-satire mode by opposing true grotesque satire (Jarry, Gillray) to commonsensical lampoon.