[Peace-discuss] AWARE

[C. G. Estabrook]

Wait until the vehicle comes to a full and complete stop.

Mind the closing doors.


Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> I happen to like merry-go-rounds as well as Ferris wheels, regardless of how
> ferrous or ironic they may be.  This particular merry-go-round is making me a
> bit ill, however.  I believe I'll drop out now.
> 
> Ricky
> 
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
> 
> --- On *Thu, 9/3/09, E. Wayne Johnson /<ewj at pigs.ag>/* wrote:
> 
> 
> From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] AWARE To: 
> Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 1:41
> PM
> 
> the merry-go-round is not a ferrous wheel, the perception of irony is lost
> and the derivation of irony is unrelated.
> 
> Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, 
> deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which
> there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what
> one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that
> calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.
> 
> There is argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony
> revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is
> expressed and what is intended, or between an understanding or expectation of
> a reality and what actually happens: the literal truth is in direct
> discordance to the perceived truth.