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MONTREALMAN’S MULTI-LAYERED POSTS

“Buzz” reports that warm PJs will stay on tonight as a result of being unable to play strip Literati with his girl. What is going on here? That’s right, Buzz and his girl have engaged in the practice of “layering,” of playing a game which serves as the text while their subsequent copulation serves as the sub-text. Such layering adds a certain piquancy which would be absent had they engaged in copulation directly, without any so-called frills. But Buzz’s layering is a simply two-dimensional affair, one consisting only of text and subtext. By contrast, Montrealman’s posts are multi-layered, consisting as they do of three and, in the present case, four layers of sub-text. Let me explain.

1. The Layer of Parody

Typically, Montrealman’s posts consist of spoofing, of engaging in an academic idiom involving long, grammatically complex wording and syntax which some might consider affected and even pompous, as well as being of considerable length. Montrealman is having fun, particularly with those who claim that, being bored, befuddled and buggered, they hastily scroll down through his posts. Montrealman enjoys this immensely.

2. The Layer of Reality

No parody can be successful if it is not based on reality. For example, Montrealman’s parody of “Real Men” in which he engaged in conceptual analysis of what was to be understood by the phrase, was based on the essentialist/constructivist dispute, usually referred to simply as “The Cosnstructivist Wars,” which actually exist in current philosophical literature.

3. The Layer of Self-Discovery

Many ask themselves why does Montrealman, someone of clearly exceptional intelligence and academic attainments, contribute to Bitch? The answer is self-discovery, the intellectual adventure involved in structuring his thought on the various topics which arise in the course of the daily crop of bitches. The vast majority of comments on the bitches are directed at the other commenters, the unseen readers of the commenters’ comments, usually in the form of boring attachments and cartoons. In contrast, Montrealman’s comments assume the form of a soliloquy, of a reflexive reflection on his own thought without reference to the other commenters. It is an adventure in self-discovery.

4. The Layer of Parody within Parody

Consider the present comment. It contains all the characteristics of Montrealman’s multi-layered posts with the addition of a further layer, that of being a parody within a parody. Put differently, Montrealman is now engaged in spoofing himself. He’s having some fun again. I ask you, is there no limit to the depth of Montrealman’s intelligence, no bounds to the dimensions of his inquiring mind?

A pleasure as always.

Cheerio!