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Irony alerts in the 14th century
By jquiggin | April 17, 2003
‘Truly this is the sweetest of theologies’, William said, with perfect humility, and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony, which must always be prefaced by the pronunciato, representing its signal and its justification - something that William never did. For which reason the abbot, more inclined to the use of figures of speech, took William literally …
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Topics: Metablogging |
October 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
[...] These days, they tend to know a lot of math, and math is a very useful thing. Matt omitted the irony alerts, but I tried to spell out the same point here. Given any data on any observed set of problems [...]