For "direction of irony," I mean the direction the reality is from the statement. To take a simple example, in a sarcastic overstatement, the direction is towards the deflationary truth (which I think of as downward). What I like about the image is that its movement implies what lies underneath all irony, the impression created that the real truth is further still on the other side -- we follow through past the target. So, yes, its aim. I think.
You may be pointing at the same fuzziness I labeled as haloing satire.
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Date: 10 May 2005 12:32 am (UTC)You may be pointing at the same fuzziness I labeled as haloing satire.
---L.