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But first I must go to the bathroom
It would be ironic if you didn't return, themilum.
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Hope everything comes out all right.
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Hope everything comes out all right.
We may never know, Faldage. [Hope so. :) ]
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This thread is coming to define 'stream of consciousness' for me.
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Ahhhh! That's much better. I do my best thinking while soaking in a warm sudsy perfumed bath.
And so here is the skinny...
It is a matter of irony that the word "irony" is
a word that by its very function cannot be precisely
defined.
Have you ever wondered why "What is irony?" is one of
the most re-asked questions to people like me?
Well, the reason is simple - languages (that is, we) have a lingual need for a loose term that refers to the absurd relationships and oddly coincidental events that seem to happen in our lives almost daily. As such the word that describes the paradoxical nature of human discourse must itself be vague enough to encompass the innumberable numbers and varities of such events.
Another way of saying this is... the word 'irony" is not a real word but an expression of the acknowledgement and of our acquiescence of our fate.
And that is the definition #1 of the term "irony".
I will be back in a jiffy with definition #2,
but now I must walk over to the grocery store
to buy a newspaper and a coke.
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I've already found so many here that have an exquisite way of expressing thoughts with depth and clarity so why go anywhere else? Honey, if you do a Search on irony, you will probably find more mentions of it than you care to read, but. The term and its (alleged) meaning(s) has been bandied about here a very great deal. Some of the earliest discussions were the most interesting, if memory serves me correctly.
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I will be back in a jiffy with definition #2
I can't imagine how you will surpass the depth and clarity of Definition #1, themilum. But I'm sure your Definition #2 will dispel Jackie's nostalgia for archival commentaries. Such reminiscences are more often fondly remembered than fondly relived.
An amiable recollection is very friendly to imperfections. The best way to honor our dead is to speak kindly of it and treat it as we would any other sleeping doggerel: "Let it lie." [And we know you are the "self-annointed arbiter" of doggerel as well as limericks, themilum. :) ]
In any case, we grow impatient for your irony.
The longer we have to wait for your wisdom, the more we will expect of it when it finally arrives. This is the converse of Jackie's nostalgia, and you may find some irony in that.
Your wisdom, which deserves to shine, grows ever more dim as we wait for it, whereas the wisdom buried in our archives, deservedly dim in memory, begins to shine.
The glow is flowing in the wrong direction, themilum. We should expect more of our living around here, and less of our dead.
When the best we have to look forward to is already dead and buried, then, surely, we are better off living in our past. [Please resist the temptation to repine that that's what we're already doing, themilum. :) ]
The old carouser slowly
Stood up, drank life's last glow,
And flung the cup so holy
Into the flood below.
He saw it plunging, drinking
As deep in the sea it sank.
His eyes the while were sinking,
Not a drop again he drank.
From THE KING OF THULE by Goethe
Originally posted in "Beakers" thread yesterday.
Just a little cross-threading to set the stage for your final irony, themilum.
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You want irony, Plutarch? I'll give you irony...
Why is it that you youngsters who have ten million
hours left on this Earth exhibit the patience of a
dog in heat; while we who's time on this Earth
can be counted on the foot of a two-toed pig
are blessed with the patience of a chair.
That reality is a simple form of irony. I'll be back in a hour with the rest.
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we who's time on this Earth can be counted on the foot of a two-toed pig are blessed with the patience of a chair.
Now, that is an irony with legs on it, themilum.
I will be back in an hour to see where this irony is going. :)
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