But first he headed to Portsmouth, to fill the ever-absurd role of "technical director".
It was a role that could have become a self-indulgent exercise in excess, but his disciplined performance brought out the almost surreal absurdity of the legal system without itself ever becoming absurd or unreal.
That hiatus makes no sense, either theoretically or practically, and it's become ever more absurd as the years pass.
Professionally, I am happy to endorse the notion, which seems ever less absurd as time goes on.
Assange's flight from Sweden, a decent democracy with a largely excellent justice system, takes ever more absurd forms.
AS BIG-TIME COLLEGE FOOTBALL has grown into a multisponsored, million-footed behemoth, the urge to reduce each season to a few personalities has become ever more absurd, and more necessary.
Meanwhile, Lenny contrives ever more absurd ways to keep himself apart from Lila during the honeymoon in anticipation of the moment when he intends to "drop the bomb" — to declare that their marriage is, after several days, over.
It hasn't helped, of course, that the country decided not to deal with its past at all, thereby allowing certain abuses and mistakes to repeat themselves in ever more absurd reincarnations.
With a cast of 10 dancers, Schechter orchestrates a surreal chain of encounters, from which ever more absurd, tragic and horrible consequences unravel – each one challenging our sense of what is acceptable and routine.
Serra, who until recently could be heard toeing the opposition's line on Bolsa Família (roughly, "a dole-out to people who don't want to work"), spent his campaign making ever more absurd promises of expanding the programme in numbers and amounts – without raising taxes.
But my caution seemed unnecessary, for the thought of this shy girl actually standing up and singing "Broadway Baby" was so off-the-wall that all three of us quickly dismissed it as a joke and moved on to ever more absurd fantasies.
