There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.