Irony
Okay, I understand irony. It is present - in some form - in the topics of my last two posts. The first laments poor plots and our culture's focus on sex over courtship. The subsequent post concerns the breeding habits of pandas. Duly noted and catalogued.Ran across this quote and think it relates to the first point from my former posting regarding good writing. Enjoy!
"A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents -- he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tends not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step." Edgar Allan Poe, "Unity of Impression" (1842).
posted by shadowlands7 @ 1:46:00 PM
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