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Go Absurd Number 35


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Life Would Be Absurd If You Didn’t GO ABSURD!

Opening Absurdity

I judge my life by Facebook Likes
and words will never hurt me

Nice daybed Mr M! tell Mrs S you need a morning-tea-bed

Quote of the Day

 “To ridicule. To be ridiculous. These are, for Unamuno, the only response to the ‘tragic sense of life’. The philosophy of ridicule, and also a ridiculous philosophy.” (Eugene Thacker on Miguel de Unamuno) 



A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said

Walk for public office, and run for private space

A Cruel and Absurd World…

An American woman has died after being hit by a piece of debris that came from an explosion associated with a gender reveal announcement

Book Title You Will Probably Never See…

How To Count Grains Of Sand While Intoxicated

Random Fact

There are more than 5.6 million vending machines in Japan
(Pico Iyer – A Beginner’s Guide to Japan)

Things You Will Probably Never Hear In 2019…

“That shepherd and his flock of sheep only cost me tuppence”

The Meaning of Life?

Wearing green t-shirts to the Fair

Said No One, Probably Ever….

“The ossicles look good when the pupil dilates his and her sword into the chaliced miracle”

From the Great Man Daniil Kharms

MAKAROV (reading): “…Gradually man loses his shape and turns into a sphere. And, having become a sphere, he loses all his desires.”

(From the Book, Today I Wrote Nothing)


“It would have been nice to drink a beer on the edges of a random desert. Why didn’t I do that?”  

Something to Wear
 I Look Blue Black Camiseta Front

Go Absurd! Exercise:

Next time someone says, “It’s just a fantasy”, reply with, “Your whole life is a fantasy”

A Sign You Will Probably Never See…

FOR
NONE
OF
US

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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