D.T. Max Quote
Quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage. Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing….[I]rony’s singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.
D.T. Max
Quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage. Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing….[I]rony’s singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.