From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: __rony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage._ Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It__ critical and destructive, a ground-clearing_.[I]rony__ singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.
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quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: __rony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage._ Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It__ critical and destructive, a ground-clearing_.[I]rony__ singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.
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