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#48577 11/26/01 04:06 PM
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As Christmas approaches, I am reminded of one of my favorite examples of irony in literature: O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.


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Dear AnnaStrophic: A wonderful short story. I was very happy to find that some of O.Henry's stories are now available online. Here is link to text of the story:
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html


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Glad you found that link, Dr. Bill. If anyone hasn't read this story, y'all should.

Meanwhile, you said to Faldage: You should be a CIA disinformation specialist.

What makes you think he isn't??


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Dear AnnaStrophic: I know better than to think Faldage won't give me a few lumps for that one. It is really wonderful how the stuff on Internet keeps increasing. A couple years ago I spent many hours looking for O.Henry story "The Roads We Take" and could not find it. This morning it jumped up on first try.


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the best part of the story is in the first few lines..
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

i always wondered how that worked out..


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the best part of the story is in the first few lines..
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

i always wondered how that worked out..


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She thought at first she had a buck ninety, but three of the pennies were counterfeit. Sharp girl, Helen.


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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

i always wondered how that worked out..

Duh! How about, e.g., four dimes, nine half-dimes, twenty-one two cent pieces and sixty pennies?


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Is it ironic that the song isn't?


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AnnaSp: Thanks for providing a good example of situational irony here.

DocCom (not to be confused with DotCom): Some of the lyrics in Morrisette's song demonstrate situational irony. I think it's the verbal irony that's the harder nut to crack. Would be fun to read some examples of that kind of irony here, too--that is, if any of us are brilliant enough to do so.

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