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How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.


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This page presents the quote "How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.". Author of this quote is Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. This quote is about rhetoric, growing-up, perspective,.