Ambiguity Quote by Janet Beizer

“Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.”

— Nathaniel Wing

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

— David Foster Wallace

“Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?”

— Victor Hugo

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

“However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so…

— Philippe Lejeune

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had spoken of…

— Robertson Davies

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through…

— Daniel Handler

“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The…

— Janet Beizer

“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an…

— Karl Kraus

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony…

— Philip Kitcher

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell