A Town Called Alice

[Mark Kohut]

Alice writes:
"Kindness is the stuff of
Dickens novels, It doesn't happen in IV. The possibility remains.
There could be kindness in the future. But it can't happen, and
doesn't happen in or between the pages of the book."

Such words mean that when the NARRATOR of IV says the room was filled with too much kindness that statement is NOT true. All irony with all connections to that irony, ironically covered?. 
Even the comment on Doc abusing it? NOT. Simply NOT.

Hope telling Doc to tell his squeeze something nice once in awhile, it will make her feel good. Not kindness from her, suggested for another, all irony? No way.

The steadily flowing theme of doing something for nothing, for no reason, no pay, no reciprocity through the end of the book.  Sounds like a good definition of (part of) kindness to me.

We have to start our metaunderstanding(s) with the text. Through the end, there is a lot of non-irony with no ironic overturning.