It Is Funny

I got a better sense of the funny parts of the book in chapter 3, here are some of them:

“Fallopian twinkled. ‘They accuse us of being paranoids.’” (pg.35)
1. The name Fallopian… WTF? I understand that Fallopian TUBES are part of the reproductive system of a female, the two ducts that connect the ovaries with the uterus, where usually the egg is fertilized. Not a name for a person, or the last name of a person.
2. What he says is being paranoid, it is ironic, if someone is paranoid he thinks that he is being followed or accused for or looked at. I read in a bumper sticker once something similar, it said, “I used to be a schizophrenic but now we are okey”. It’s funny.
A guy named Peter Pinguid Society was making a plan to bomb Cape Horn of San Francisco, and two cruisers were around that place and were supposedly going to attack and a squadron was standing there to protect and everything, but “The cruisers, however, seemed to prefer cruising and nothing more.” (pg. 35)
That’s exaggeration. The whole story is an exaggeration of something that wouldn’t happen. I mean cruises are not war weapons. It is making fun of the war, the exaggeration of sending a squadron to guard the city of two cruises.

Then there is this play about the killing of Niccolo and the murderer Angelo, that is a Tragedy, that is funny, like Candide. “At the end of it about the only character left alive in a stage dense with corpses is the colorless administrator, Genaro” (pg 58)
That is another exaggeration! And a funny one that all are dead, and just the administrator is alive.

So yes, it is a satirical play.