He was well aware that, in treating of new themes in his prose works, he would have to employ a vocabulary of a nature more familiar in hija, satirical poetry.
Reflexive humour can take place at dual levels of directing humour at self or at the larger community the self identifies with.
For comedy is, after all, a look at ourselves, not as we pretend to be when we look in the mirror of our imagination, but as we really are.