8 It's quite a long novel, but not absurdly long.
The hatchback boot space is small for a car of this size, but not absurdly so.
This is probably a little low, but not absurdly out of line.
Also in the plus column, it has an expansive sliding keyboard with nicely raised keys in a case that is not absurdly thick.
The story goes that Alfred Hitchcock telephoned his home one day .I'm sorry," said one of Simenon's staff, "he's just started a novel"."That's all right, I'll wait".Simenon did write quickly, though not absurdly so.
He said the salary was not absurdly low: although house cleaners in middle class families could earn 60% more, he said, they tended to have higher social capital and better contacts.
Coupled with a cautious, anti-inflationary stance by the central bank, these policies have done much to reassure investors, both domestic and foreign, that putting money into South Africa is not absurdly risky, though foreign direct investment is still disappointingly low.
My share of lunch came to 19 euros, including wine and an unavoidable cover charge of 2 euros; not absurdly low (this is Venice, after all) but delicious, gut-busting and probably half what I would've paid near Piazza San Marco.
Not absurdly late -- probably average for a 20-something.
The folks at Homicide Report were able to check that intel against the cold hard facts, and found that the graffiti was inaccurate, if not absurdly so.
