Humorous literature Exemplars of comical texts span the genres of burlesque to satire and include humorous love poems and riddles. “At the cleaners” is a tale of the dispute between an insolent scrubber and his client, a “sophomoric fop” who lectures the cleaner in ridiculous detail on how to launder his clothes, driving the exasperated cleaner to suggest that he lose no time in taking it to the river and doing it himself.UET 6/2, 414 The Dialogue of Pessimism was seen as a saturnalia by Böhl, where master and servant switch roles, and as a burlesque by Speiser, where a fatuous master mouthes clichés and a servant echoes him. Lambert considered it a musing of a mercurial adolescent with suicidal tendencies.
Humorous literature Exemplars of comical texts span the genres of burlesque to satire and include humorous love poems and riddles “At the cleaners” is a tale of the dispute between an insolent scrubber and his client a “sophomoric fop” who lectures the cleaner in ridiculous detail on how to launder his clothes driving the exasperated cleaner to suggest that he lose no time in taking it to the river and doing it himselfUET 6/2 414 The Dialogue of Pessimism was seen as a saturnalia by Böhl where master and servant switch roles and as a burlesque by Speiser where a fatuous master mouthes clichés and a servant echoes him Lambert considered it a musing of a mercurial adolescent with suicidal tendencies