Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> >Steve wrote:
> >
> > > > >I'm more ironic than Alanis Morisette! ;-)
> >
> >I replied:
> >
> > > Considering how ironic most of the stuff in that
> > > song was *not*...
> >
> Steve responded:
> >And doesn't that make her *particularly* ironic? ;-)
>
> So you're saying, isn't it ironic that "Isn't It Ironic" isn't ironic? Or
> rather, "Isn't It Ironic" is ironic but it's descriptions are not? Or it's
> descriptions are, but only in that they describe things that aren't? Or
> something like that?
>
> To quote Phoebe from Friends, "Wow, that song works on so many levels." :-)
>
> Or, ironically, doesn't...
Well, if it doesn't, then it's just one more irony, but if it does, then
that, at least, is not a meta-irony.
If that's the last thing required to send it over the top to irony, then
maybe we have a paradox here. (Or is the only paradox around the 2 vets
I'm interested in contacting, to speak with one of them about a cat?)
Julia
