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(Abecedarium) I

I’m an irony addict. I use irony as a mechanism for defense and distance in much the same way others use drugs or alcohol to anesthetize themselves against the every day pain of an other-than-charmed life. I inoculate myself with … Continue reading

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DFW’s “Lukewarm Irony”

In an interesting (to people like me) bit of analysis, Andrew Seal writes about Infinite Jest: Specialized knowledges pervade the book—tennis, recreational drug use, optics, burglary, even punting (surely the most narrowly specialized position in football). But one of the … Continue reading

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The Ironist

[image by S. Casey]  David Foster Wallace’s passing has spurred a lot of conversations that in one way or another invoke the idea of irony and his work’s relationship to it. Some of the arguments to be found in and … Continue reading

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