Like Larkin, like Didsbury, Fletcher is finely aware that humour is not an escape from seriousness but a means of attaining it. If the uncorked banshee rebellion bottle is funny, it is seriously funny. Undergirding its verbal fireworks is a sustained critique of the twenty-first century alliance between Big Brother and Big Tech, and an urgent appeal to renew our commitments to each other, to nature, to intimacy, to simplicity and to touch, while there is still time.
Like Larkin, like Didsbury, Fletcher is finely aware that humour is not an escape from seriousness but a means of attaining it. If the uncorked banshee rebellion bottle is funny, it is seriously funny. Undergirding its verbal fireworks is a sustained critique of the twenty-first century alliance between Big Brother and Big Tech, and an urgent appeal to renew our commitments to each other, to nature, to intimacy, to simplicity and to touch, while there is still time.
