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So what you see here is
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a narrator who has learned to do that parsing.
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Some of these terms that he uses are literary--
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climax,
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the creation of suspense--
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so he's tracking this as if it were
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the development of a narrative.
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But he's also suggesting
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how humor is used to broach topics that are
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impossible to talk about in more direct ways,
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or that feel dangerous to these boys
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to approach in more direct ways.