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anam owili-.. (1)
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 
Irony, unlike satire, does not work in the interests of stability. Irony entails hypersensitivity to a universe permanently out of joint and unfailingly grotesque. The ironist does not pretend to cure such a universe or to solve its mysteries. It is satire that solves. The images of vanity, for example, that litter the world's satire are awlays satisfactorily deflated in the end; but the vanity of vanities that informs the world's irony is beyond liquidation. (Morton Gurewitch, European Romantic Irony)

As quoted from D.C: Muecke's The Compass of Irony.
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anam owili-eger

 
I like that.  That makes perfect sense to me.

I feel that the use of irony was once a useful additive to modes of conversation and communication.  Then when people decided to add it to everything, conversation became lazy, often boorish, and rather vain.  I'd like to think that this will pass, but I don't believe that there is a communal incentive to do so.  Time will tell, but I may not be around to hear it.

 
Posted by anam owili-eger on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 4:35 PM
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