"It would have been very absurd to have a pool".
Like all good parodies, though, it also exposed the heartbreak beneath the funny and the absurd: it is very hard for an entire society to live without knowing how to act at life's key junctures.
And his life continues in its utterly happy, non-careerist way until he is confronted with a terrible loss, which appears at first comically absurd but is very serious.
"There is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island," he insisted.
"There is something very absurd," wrote Paine, "in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island … The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind".
"This is the only thing I've ever done that is financially very absurd," Mr. Wendell said.
It's all very absurd, but there's no doubt about it: the Bourne franchise delivers more entertainment-bangs for your buck than anything else comparable.
To me, "Kids in the Hall" is just the benchmark of Canadian comedy and it's very twisted and absurd.
He had long admired Dostoyevsky and Camus, and in a letter to a friend while he was working on Ascending and Descending he explained: "That staircase is a rather sad, pessimistic subject, as well as being very profound and absurd.
