The same habits of mind that produce arbitrary and absurd chains of reasoning also produce the theories that splendidly annihilate our ordinary notions of time and space and logic.
It was the template for his early and, so far, most enjoyable films, in which a quiet victim of Japan's long economic stasis finds himself at the center of a violent and weirdly comical spiral of events, pushed on by some combination of frustration, absurd chains of coincidence and the working man's stereotypically tremendous intake of beer, sake and whiskey.
How typical of you and your feeble servility towards the pathetic silliness of propriety that you should care more for the laundering of clothes – those absurd chains that keep man from his true self – than for the sex-flow that keeps man alive and is the only honest expression of animal energy that exists on this miserable globe.
"Wrong," from the director of the ready-made cult film "Rubber," demonstrates exactly that, with its sluggish chain of absurd situations: an office in which it is perpetually raining; a pizza delivery girl who quits her marriage after falling in love during a failed phone order; a backyard palm tree mysteriously replaced by a pine.
Second, as the Independent Review pointed out, though the law "allows companies to report they have taken no steps to address modern slavery in their supply chains". This is absurd.
You will be stuck in an overheated room, chained to a table for an absurd length of time and stopped from proper work.
What happened at Benghazi hospital is a monumental tragedy, but the chain of events that followed has been absurd, arbitrary and terrifying.
And it seemed to demonstrate how absurd the American court system has become, in a chain that began with O.J. Simpson's trial and will end who knows where.
"If you're telling me there's a straight chain of command back to El Chapo in Sinaloa — come on, that's absurd," the Mexican ambassador, Arturo Sarukhán, protested.
In another segment he told a lawyer who is suing a fast-food chain for making his client's daughter fat that his case was absurd.
Indeed, chains are responsible for some of the weirdest, most innovative, most absurd dishes out there.
