jbor wrote: > > You deny Hite's reference to the "familiar paradigm" which Blicero's > sacrifice of his "son" fulfils, by saying "all of the allusions here are > ironic". Oh, I didn't think i had. P's irony is very tricky isn't it, is it possible that the irony goes against Blicero, the allusions, even the narrator, the modernist reader?