Seriously, how possible is this, your sticky smoke?
Communes are not, as a rule, taken particularly seriously as possible living arrangements for the majority of the population.
How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
In your new book, "The Autistic Brain," you seriously entertain possible links between vaccines and autism in children, links that scientists have vehemently dismissed.
Dr. Yagob Yousef al-Mazrou, a Saudi health official on the oversight committee, said his country hoped its actions would convey to "our brothers in Nigeria to take this as seriously as possible".
But it is constructed in good faith by people who take it as seriously as possible and are trying to raise some questions and issues about developments in the media industry as a whole.
Sri Lanka, who sit fifth in the ODI rankings and would need to avoid defeat to prevent sixth-placed England jumping above them, come into the series on the back of a convincing 2-0 win over Ireland last week but have lost Shaminda Eranga, the right-arm seamer, to an illegal bowling action and, more seriously, a possible heart condition.
Behind its savage ironies, Saramago seems to do no more than take the Incarnation as seriously as possible: if Jesus was born a man, he seems to say, then he inherits everything man is prey to, including sin, which comes from God anyway.
"That's the beauty of bizarro: You take the most ludicrous idea, and approach it as seriously as possible".
