Guardian Article on Irony
After my earlier entry about irony, I started to write another, putting the pieces in place for a long-term argument about why it is hard to write a blog without understanding your blog reader.
It started well, referencing the bewilderment of the irony-blind, as demonstrated in the Letters page of Black People Love Us.
It debated the suggestion that Americans are particularly poor at detecting irony.
It referenced the The Office.
It demonstrated that irony could be vicious, using Monty Python as an authority: "He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire."
However, while doing the research, I stumbled across this Guardian article that covered all the ground I did, and more, better than I could.
Perhaps ironically, this demonstrates a completely different reason why it is hard to finish blog entries.
It started well, referencing the bewilderment of the irony-blind, as demonstrated in the Letters page of Black People Love Us.
It debated the suggestion that Americans are particularly poor at detecting irony.
It referenced the The Office.
It demonstrated that irony could be vicious, using Monty Python as an authority: "He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire."
However, while doing the research, I stumbled across this Guardian article that covered all the ground I did, and more, better than I could.
Perhaps ironically, this demonstrates a completely different reason why it is hard to finish blog entries.