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A paradoxical irony. For sure.
posted by
Schatz
on July 17, 2006 at 8:34 AM
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Mysteria...
How ironic that you should mention a paradox. I didn't think about that before I got here, and that makes it both ironic and a paradox. I don't know though, is it an ironic paradox, or a paradoxical irony? I think that's a lot like an answer that destroys the very question that brought it into being. Not unlike the barber in Seville who told the hapless customer, ''Don't believe anything that a barber in Seville tells you. They are all liars.'' You have heard of suicide bombers. That is a suicide answer. It blows itself and its question to smithereens.
Thank you for reminding me of that.
I needed it.
Be sure to have a nice day. 
posted by
Jack_Flash
on July 17, 2006 at 12:59 AM
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I'd better go look at those sites! Thanks!
posted by
Whacky
on July 16, 2006 at 1:49 PM
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Blanche01
That one, incongruity is MUCH easier to grasp. I love words! Hope you are having a lovely swim
posted by
mysteria
on July 16, 2006 at 1:24 PM
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Mysteria, I am puzzling over this, too, Irony is one of those things that I
think I understand until I try to explain it to myself or someone else, then I get lost. Here's the part of the Wikipedia article that made sense and rung a bell of truth in my head:
Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood.
Incongruity, now there's another word I need to look up.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 16, 2006 at 12:55 PM
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