Couple all that with the revelation of a preposterous back-story about Simon's origins and heroin smuggling (yes, that's why he's so scared of needles!), and the book becomes ridiculous.
He takes a single to put Gayle on strike against Finn for the first time – and Gayle plays a preposterous stroke, backing away to smash a short ball over extra cover for four.
Desperate to earn back preposterous budgets, they turn to the broadest, dopiest movie clichés — swelling musical scores and noisy spectacle.
But, just like Mr Fantastic, he somehow bends a long left arm behind his body and scoops a preposterous flicked forehand back over the net.
"What's he building in there?" Waits keeps asking, his curtain twitching, his conjecture becoming ever more preposterous as the backing frequencies oscillate, the static becoming yet more deranged.
And there goes that sense of occasion, because New Wembley is a perfect monument for these cynical times: the FA knows the price of everything (seemingly intent on playing every possible game there just to claw back its preposterous construction costs) but the value of nothing.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said any suggestions of contracts being clawed back were "preposterous".
Looking back, it seems preposterous, as if one season of 97 victories could trump a century of gloom.
In Curb's most recent season, the character of Larry – also separated from his wife – goes to characteristically preposterous lengths to win her back.
Local police called his killing part of an ordinary robbery, a theory so preposterous that prosecutors handed them back the case.
AMID grave warnings that our world has changed forever, that America has grown up, that Islam is now to be taken very seriously, it may be some small comfort to born cavalrymen and their ladies that Hollywood cannot keep itself from going back to the preposterous racist folderol and high entertainment known as "The Four Feathers".
