Such an one usually passes the problem off in an epigrammatic paradox, and says ‘that Snookums is so homely, he’s pretty!’ This is the childish penchant for the grotesque and tawdrily ‘cute’, which we see likewise embodied in popular cartoons, freak dolls, and all the malformed decorative trumpery of the ‘Billiken’ or ‘Krazy Kat’ order found in the ‘dens’ and ‘cosy corners’ of the would-be sophisticated cultural yokelry.
