Its transformation seems more catachresis than irony, more a twisted similarity than an inversion or negation. |
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. |
To put this bluntly, historical catachresis is a way of borrowing literary criticism's understanding of textuality to point beyond the literary text. |
And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute. |
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools. |
It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court. |