For Rorty, Derrida most perfectly typifies the ironist. Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. Second, the ironist exploits a contradiction, incongruity, or incompatibility between the two levels. As a poet Lucas was a polished ironist. Most writers see Humbert as an unreliable narrator and credit Nabokov's powers as an ironist. The upper level is the situation as its appears to the reader or the ironist. Stevens the ironist should not be overlooked.