But surely he had some kind of case of irony? My memories of even
Heart of Darkness suggest so; or is it just in the later reader?
About the momeyed lacking talent or having it: I always liked Fifth
Business's narrator's suggestion that they did have a talent, one they
didn't want to admit to, that of being able to make money.
Doug
On 26-Aug-08, at 8:54 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Counter-intuitively, the Polish aristo lacked a sense of irony that
> the Yank possessed.
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