"ironically" again

[David Bowie]

From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Ron writes:

> "[I]f one is setting out to make a movie about dangerous creatures,
> one does not really expect to be killed [by a dangerous creature], so
> the sense of irony in which things turn out to be the opposite of what
> one might expect also works here."

> Works for me.

Me, too. My first reading of the irony involved, though, wasn't from
anything in the text itself, but from the larger context that the reader
was expected to know: that this was *Steve f-in' Irwin*.

After all, this is a guy who makes his living *not* getting killed by
dangerous creatures. Therefore, it's ironic that his demise came about
while he was doing his job, except in this case he did*n't* avoid
getting killed by one of them.

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