1. This detestable custom satirizes humanity.

2. In Cocksure Richler satirizes political correctness and reverse discrimination

3. Faucher's "The Effect of the Atomist Clinamen in the Constitution of Borges's 'Library of Babel'" and Neil Badmington's "Babelation." Emir Rodriguez Monegal mentions in passing that the story "satirizes the concept of a total library" (89), but does not expand on this suggestion.