I'm not going to pilfer through IJ to try and convince you I know what irony means. No, it's not just humor.
>Anyway Wallace was attempting eh, I wouldn't go there. But I'll chock it up to imprecise wording. I agree with you that much of it (so far) comes off as a sort of modernist storytelling set in a postmodern framework and style.
Dominic Bell
There is no way to read a book in a vacuum, I wasn't suggesting that there was, but there is a difference between the "pure" reading you are making fun of and one in which you are just looking to validate the ideas you have gotten about a text from other sources (i.e. critics, teachers, Veeky Forums).
