It's hard to figure out the ravings of lunatics, at times.
Tom tells Claudia, who is trying to write a news report, that war "does lunatic things with time".
Alfred Wegener, who proposed the idea of continental drift, was derided as a lunatic in his time and remains virtually unknown today.
These characters pinball around Los Angeles on lunatic missions involving time travel, a drug called Liquid Karma, levitating ice cream trucks, a staged racist police shooting that turns real courtesy of a Jon Lovitz cameo, a dream sequence where a beer-crushing Timberlake lip-syncs the Killers' "All These Things That I've Done," and a flamboyant energy executive played by Wallace Shawn.
Let the SBTC teach you how to smile like a lunatic at ALL times.
Yet what seemed at the time a lunatic piece of self-sabotage now makes a kind of sense.
But we ought not to be shocked if it turns out that somewhere, at some time, some lunatic takes this rhetoric seriously and acts on it in some unthinkable way.
This time, a lunatic known as Marco the Maniac takes a meat cleaver to a celebrity chef bound for the big barbecue cook-off to be held at Gooser Park.
An online organisation, Lunarclock.org, has developed what it calls Lunar Standard Time, a lunatic system to be used in a future era of extraterrestrial living ("It is pretty clear that the Moon will be colonised sooner or later," the website reasons).
It is noted that his whole family have spent time in lunatic asylums and he, too, fears for his own sanity – but Johanne is unfazed by this, telling him that all artists walk hand in hand with insanity and must harness it.
