Behind the invective, behind the poet’s laughing response to the frozen carnival of literature, one can find other things, among them horror and a prophetic gaze that proclaims the end of the dictatorship

There was often far more of this constituents' mail, these Voices of the People, full of invective or adulation or petition for redress or advantage

invective and lampoonery becomes delirial

Lenin will not call him comrade, will not shake his hand. Lenin damns his old collaborator with remorseless cold invective.

while I get small pleasure from invectives against my wife, the enjoyment that sustains me is generated by the indefinite postponement of really leaving my wife for my mistress.