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And the expression gone with the wind antedated Margaret Mitchell's book--indeed, she so named the book because of the cliché, not the other way round; a cursory check of my Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988--nudge!
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Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
As we have seen, our impulse to promote religion, love for the nation, and “politically correct” speech seems to yield greater results when the state holds back and limits itself to a gentle nudge in the right direction.
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