He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Stephen Crane
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He saw that it was an ironical thing for him...
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him...
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him...
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This quote from the book The Wind in the Willows is from a chapter titled “The Crooked Man.” J.R.R. Tolkien says that the Crooked Man is an “ironic figure,” and that the irony of the situation actually has something to do with Mr. Badger. For example, Mr.

Badger already knows he is going to die soon, and he has to run away from it as fast as he can so as not to face his death. But now he realizes that he is running toward death and that "the spirit of irony" must be “working against him."

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