The superiority of irony over sarcasm
Consider this, a delicious excerpt from Evelyn Waugh, writing in 1931, via Paul Theroux’s 2011 anthology, ‘The Tao of Travel’: ‘But my ill-temper gradually cooled as the train, with periodic derailments (three, to be exact, between Mombassa and Nairobi) climbed up from the coast into the highlands. In the restaurant car that evening I sat
