My father wears an absurd blue-and-white towelling hat as he trundles the barrow about.
"What you're wearing is absurd," said my boss, the President.
The next time we see her, she is asleep, wearing an absurd eye-mask and dangling ear-plugs with little blue tassels.
But many did understand: people in Sinaloa know that los narcos actually wear those absurd boots — most fashionably made of ostrich leather — and in these hard times every day brings news of more lives they have shattered.
The fat, inquisitive metaphysician Pierre marries, separates, becomes a Mason, is widowed, and, wearing an absurd white hat and green tailcoat, blunders into the theatre of war at Borodino.
On May 25th the monarch delivered the Queen's Speech, amid the traditional pageantry of crowns and coaches, cavalrymen in dazzling cuirasses, Black Rod, trumpeters and Ken Clarke, the justice secretary and Lord Chancellor, wearing an absurd wig.
That fashion week is, as Suzy Menkes wrote in her now seminal New York Times essay, a circus, as the attendees ramp up their attempts to get noticed, be noticed and be photographed by wearing increasingly absurd outfits.
It means ditching his entourage and respecting Owen, who stayed part of his "band" (meaning he presses play on an iPod) while wearing an absurd Daft Punk-via-Galactus helmet, and reconnecting with Lawrence, who has grown a beard and now works on a farm in Colorado.
They can't believe we are stupid enough to wear their absurd contraptions!
There was, it struck me, a gawkiness about Mark; today, for instance, he was wearing an absurd-looking short-billed neoprene hood, with his beard jutting over the chin strap and his ponytail flopping out the back.
