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It's ironic, too, that critics such as MacGregor persist in seeing Darger as an unself-conscious obsessive, unable to separate his life from his created fantasy world, since in fact Darger's work is full of precisely the sort of self-referentiality that in a contemporary insider artist would be read as a rather ordinary example of postmodern detachment.
The passage in Juvenal's poem which corresponds most closely to the one quoted by Mr. Conniff is near the beginning (lines 7-9), where Juvenal, building up to an ironic crescendo, shudders at the thought of:
They are products of this ironic, shrugging age.
Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is "ironic."
This is the sense in which Gore is an ironic beneficiary of global warming , the ongoing natural catastrophe that Gore's been issuing jeremiads about for several years.