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Irony: ‘the hardest addiction of all’

08.14.2012 by David Murray // 6 Comments

"Forget heroin," says protagonist Patrick Melrose in At Last, by Edward St. Aubyn. "Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning."

I was young and in trouble once, and a counselor ordered me to go a day without sarcasm.

I was rendered mute.

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  1. james green says

    August 14, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    I can’t do without rationalization for more than an hour

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  2. David Murray says

    August 14, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Jim, it’s not the quantity of rationalization, it’s the quality. Could you, for instance, rationalize the MURDER of the next pipsqueak motherfucker who told you to “stop rationalizing”?

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  3. james green says

    August 14, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Only if you help

    Reply
  4. David Murray says

    August 14, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    I got your back, Jack.

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