a wry look , with a near to mean sarcasm , leapt the distance to the hoang-ha who could no more accommodate a sarcasm than a las vegas casino could accommodate a lobby full of boat people : if the sarcasm could not make the leap , but , rather , fell the distance it took to work its freight of sarcasm at least midway across the casino lobby , thenthe monster could not wait for the sarcasm to take effect .