A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

Let's get one thingout of the way:I fear the person who reads this and fails to see that it's satire. What soulless fuck he'd be.I don't have much trouble imagining a person incapable of getting the joke. I did after all grown up with family that failed to understand that beingthe drunk crooner was an act that Dean Martin put on, not a reality. (Though they weren't souls fucks, just overtlypracticalminded and insensitive to irony and nuance.)

Anyhow, I won't say what thegag i...