SATIRA: PAMPAGANA SA PAGBASA
ni Ana Butumbakal
Tamang panukalang pantaga-at-pantagay sa maling kalagayang umiiral ang (salungatang) masayang paghasaan ng kakayahang magsuri.
Bilib ako sa manunulat na "satirada" ang approach, satirikong tumirada. Gaya ni Barbara Ehrenreich, social critic ng Amerika.
Ms. Ehrenreich's acts of kindness, by no means random, aim to kill. And, in a larger sense, to save (anang The New York Times).
Kaipala, taglay ni Barang ang "(Mark) Twain-like talent for turning a phrase, which makes her much fun to read and downright irrefutable," ayon naman sa San Francisco Chronicle.
Isang pruweba ng galing na iyan ang panimulang pangungusap ni Barang sa essay niyang God Owes Us An Apology na kabilang sa librong This Land Is Their Land:
"The tsunami of sea water that hit South Asia was followed instantly by a tsunami of spittle as the religious sputtered to rationalize God's latest felony."
