"Punch Line" "'So', said the doctor. "Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?"
Here the narrative plays out its final irony. The doctor's line is, as the chapter heading indicates, the punch line of what Alex has described from the beginning as his "Jewish joke" of a life. Yet, it contains a profound truth—at the.....
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