DUDE

Sincerity is saying what you think and telling it like it is. As for irony, just read what user wrote.

>I am accusing postmodern irony of secretly being sentimental.

Irony is full of sentiment. It's often from affection for a thing molested by inconsequential meaning that irony comes most forcefully to the fore. That to which someone is indifferent is rarely taken notice of, let alone subjected ironic dissection.

Purifying isn't the word.

I think we need to start getting explicitly sentimental about irony, rather than secretly sentimental inside it.

Or do away with irony, but by going through it, not behind it. RADICAL

Well there you go.

What I'm arguing then is that DFW sets up a position supposedly in opposition to a certain kind of irony, but in fact, just furthers the logic of that which he opposes.

>split infinitive
>in a DFW thread
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