1. Starting another twitter essay on humor boundaries riffing off this tweet from @JAMyerson https://twitter.com/JAMyerson/status/449576270742175744 …
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6. Part of problem is also that people have different responses to irony. Some people are just as tone-deaf to irony as others are to music
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7. Wayne Booth, great scholar of irony, notes that in any given class some students just don't get Swift's Modest Proposal.
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@HeerJeet Counterpoint: In exaggerating to absurdity it sets the boundary *of* absurdity, & the more subtle it goes, the lower the boundary.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I.e. the more capable it is of being read literally, the more it's pushing down the limit on what constitutes "extreme."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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