I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
Terry PratchettAll the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.
Terry Pratchett