irony

maa32 · 30 Mar 2002, 06:02 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) irony
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:02:17 -0700
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in my immediately previous post I said something about the tone of the=20
statement that the dust could "scarcely" be the same dust.  I mean that the=
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is some ambiguity in that formulation - like when Severian says, at the=20
beginning of Sword of the Lictor, Gee, just think, if the conciliator were=20
here, he would be in constume just like anyone else!  How neat!  That=20
statement takes on an ironic cast when he know he will re-enact the life of=20
the conciliator (or that he probably is the conciliator, I suppose) Let's f=
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it, Wolfe's narrator's make a living off not seeing the obvious.  For examp=
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1000 pages later, "You mean I'm not Horn?"
Marc Aramini

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