So it should not necessarily have been surprising that Thomas, with his team on pace to set a franchise record for losses amid nightly calls for his dismissal, had a different — some would say absurd — perspective.
Uyttendaele's sentiment echoes that of Calvino's Polo, who says, "Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".
The theme of this year's festival was The Invisible City, after Italo Calvino's 1972 novel Invisible Cities, in which he wrote that cities, "like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".
As a counterpoint, he also cites Italo Calvino's Marco Polo, who in that enchanting book Invisible Cities tells Kublai Khan: "Cities, like dreams, are made of desire and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".
(That is close to the daily cost of executing the war in Afghanistan to put the absurd figure in perspective).
The idea that in order to be credible, diaspora writers must deal with particular issues or perspectives is absurd and ignorant.
For example, genetic facts obtaining at the cellular level are said to supervene on genetic facts at the molecular level without one being simply identical with the other (Kitcher 1984), yet it would be absurd from a scientific perspective to deny the existence of facts at the cellular level.
What will seem more absurd when we have some perspective on this chapter?
Sam's highly evolved sense of the absurd provides a wickedly funny perspective on the ego-driven actors and the shrill backstage rivalries that erupt in deadly practical jokes.
But that's what they themselves are, these fastidious, competitive intellectuals whose ideas were the shape of things to come; they have made of themselves a spectacle of the future that from our present perspective looks subtly, touchingly absurd.
Then everyone submits phrases that might be applicable to the judge's perspective, ranging from the absurd to the cynical.
