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To him, the life of a journalist who resides in the city and writes about books, who commutes by train to an office and lifts weights at a gym, who talks about politics and watches "The Good Wife," who eats at a "small plates" restaurant on Saturday night and reads, on Sunday, about someone else's Sunday routine, is not so much absurd as illusory.
But there's just as much absurd ammo on the other side as well.
Maybe I'm jaded by reading too much absurd or overly sincere comparisons like that.
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You don't get much more absurd than that.
While this criterion for appointive office may not seem much more absurd than measuring candidates today by the enormousness of their campaign war chests or the telegenicity of their coiffures, it resembles a tiresome male fixation that is now stirring competition in a surprising arena: the staid field of paleontology.
"I am interested … not so much in absurd discoveries as in their consequences" (MS, 16).
The fact that we need every able man or woman who wants to serve has made the cost of kicking out otherwise qualified troops simply because of their sexual orientation seem that much more absurd and reckless.
Magid relies on his aging body as part of his shtick - while the whole cast appearing in tutus is a funny image, it's Magid's that makes it that much more absurd.
John Worthing has fewer funny lines and his desire to be re-christened as Earnest to win the woman he loves is so silly it doesn't do to linger too much on absurd story itself.
I've come to Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner expecting to hear the kind of nonsensical ramblings you'd find under a YouTube video about the MH370 disappearance, but what I've witnessed so far has been so much more absurd.
He also believes there is a place for "savage" satire: "Writers like Bulgakov and Swift were responding to much more absurd (and frightening) situations than ours, and I think they have a lot to teach us again about how to deal with the times we live in".
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