Jonke is a master of describing insane social contraptions such as forests you are told to fear because of an invisible enemy, lists of arbitrary laws you could never begin to keep track of with a mathematical finesse, more interested in exploring the space of the world than necessarily driving along what happens in it.
The maverick psychiatrist RD Laing once described insanity as "a perfectly rational response to an insane world".
It describes his insane decision to swamp one of the few islands of stability in the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal, a superb and risky act of presidential statesmanship that paid off handsomely to the benefit of the United States.
His 2011 novella, I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur, provides an array of short vignettes in which a man describes the insane array of all-but-impossible businesses he's created, out of which something like a dream-delivery service could itself have been pulled.
It is an on-spec life and it is full of what can only be described as insane serendipity (or serendipitous insanity)."~ Richard Morgan, "Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup" (Awl).
He described as "insane" an ultra-Orthodox boycott of a military ceremony in which women sang.
He had described an insane verdict as "a fate worse than death".
At the time, its closure was described as "insane" by one top Eurocrat, and as "great news for the rest of us" by a diplomat from another country.
Fiorentina have made an offer, described as insane by a club director, to Mohamed Salah in an attempt to convince him to stay with the Serie A club and reject the chance to join Internazionale.
(3-1 to Gladbach) Hamburg striker Paolo Guerrero was hit with an eight-game ban for a foul that could only be described as "insane" (Jürgen Klopp): the Peruvian took a run-up of 50m, then jumped feet first into the legs of Stuttgart keeper Sven Ulreich, who was innocently shepherding the ball out of play near the corner flag.
