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1. példa: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) -- játszásiból kicsit megtördelve.

In 1913,   when Anthony Patch was twenty-five,
two years were already gone
since irony,   the Holy Ghost of this later day,
had,    theoretically at least,
descended upon him.

Irony was  the final polish of the shoe,
  the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush,
  a sort of intellectual "There!"
--yet at the brink of this story
he has as yet gone no further than
the conscious stage.

As you first see him
he wonders frequently
whether
he is not without honor and slightly mad,
 a shameful and obscene thinness
  glistening on the surface of the world
   like oil on a clean pond,
these occasions being varied,
 of course,
 with those in which he thinks himself
  rather an exceptional young man,
  thoroughly sophisticated,
  well adjusted to his environment,
  and somewhat more significant
   than any one else he knows.