[ramjam]

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U - I agree with you but was actually more interested in the concept of performing a feat of irony. Can that be done?
What about something that is indeed ironic would make it a feat that could be performed?

The fact that someone would think that he/she could perform a feat of irony strikes me as...well, ironic!


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Err, I think I agree. One can perform a feat (which I take to mean an action other than an expression of thought) that is ironic but one cannot have intended it to be ironic since then it would not have been ironic - hence, the phrase is itself laced with irony. However, whether this latter irony is of the type that derives from the writer's unawareness of their inherent contradiction or the type that comes from their knowing use of it is unclear.