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Opening Absurdity

“Can you show me what you aren’t?”
“That’s great when you show me who you aren’t!”

Quote of the Day

“The East has consulted flowers and renunciation. Our response? Machines and effort, and that galloping melancholy – the West’s last spasm.” (E.M. Cioran)

An Absurd World…

A father falls asleep on a train, his young daughter beside him. The father wakes up and she is missing. That was the scenario in 1997 for a very unlucky father and mother who were finally reunited recently with their missing daughter after 20 plus years without her. During those long years Yulia Gorina had been living with another family 500km away in Russia

A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be…

80% of American men are circumcised and twice a week wear red ties to work that get more than three favourable comments from a manager or someone higher

A Deathbed Scene That Probably Never Happened…

On her deathbed she said,
“I have had a very long and meaningful life but the absolute highlight was when I drank a cappuccino at a trendy café named ‘EeE’ that glowed in the dark. I thought that was just dandy! So my advice to all of you is to find a café that glows in the dark and then order a cappuccino. You too will then have meaningful lives and be contributing to the great progression of humanity!”
She then smiled and glowed in the dark before ‘passing away’


A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said

The wise lie down at the bottom of the mountain to listen to others climbing

The Meaning of Life?

Procreation and Practising for Procreation

Said No One, Probably Ever….

“Why have you encroached my inner deeds to make Key Performance Indicators on PowerPoint wet dreams?”

From The Great Woman Leonora Carrington

María picked a thorn off the top of a maguey, made thread out of the sinews of the leaf, and told the maguey: 'Pardon me for taking your needle, pardon me for threading the needle with your body, pardon me for love, pardon me for I am what I am, and I do not know what this means.

(From the Book, The Debutante and Other Stories)

Something to Wear


Absurd Sign You Will Probably Never See…


WHY
BOTHER?


Remember

Absurd responsibly. The Buddhist no harm principle applies here. Do not harm yourself or others when going absurd. (Maybe what I have just written is absurd?)

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