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Everyone who comes through the double-locked steel door brings news of absurd life and absurd death.
He tells Lévy that he finds, in "the chaotic, absurd life" of his mother — whom he has seen no more than fifteen times in his life — "something terribly, appallingly contemporary".
The film follows Ramsis on encounters with friends, showing how absurd life could be under Mubarak, with countless diktats, from who you could associate with, even to where you could walk.
They all live an absurd life, of course, but (sorry, Hef) I don't think as many demands are made on their favours as the boss might like us to think, so it's probably as good a finishing school as any other for an animated Barbie with predictably blond ambitions.
It is an absurd life, one far removed from the problems of commuting on a Virgin train, but one you get used to absurdly easily, and you find yourself frowning when you notice that one of yesterday's champagne corks has not yet been removed from the beach.
And whenever his narrative seems on the verge of becoming a little too pat or predictable, he treats us to some wonderfully comic descriptions of Mae's increasingly absurd life, or concocts a breathlessly bravura scene — one involves a shark in an aquarium, another Mae's call upon Circle members to help her locate Mercer, who's gone off the grid — that seizes our attention all over again.
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So a great deal of the accidental and absurd in life gets represented in the book — though, since it is life under immense pressure, the results are sometimes tragic or grotesque.
How absurd can life be?
The motor in it is important, because obviously it goes on and on and on and on, so the whole thing was about these absurd, repetitious life cycles.
The "stuff" in the middle varies from Bum Bum to Bum Bum highly detailed, absurd real-life scenarios following one another on a nonsense high-paced narrative.
They are used alongside irony to mock an absurd real-life situation.
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