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Go Absurd 82 – Where Everything and Nothing Repeats


Quote of the Day

“Illness is primarily a drama, and it should be possible to enjoy it as well as to suffer it. I see now why the Romantics were so fond of illness – the sick man sees everything as metaphor. In this phase I’m infatuated with my cancer. It stinks of revelation.” (Anatole Broyard)

Opening Absurdity

If there were more caravans in the world there would be caravans galore and the world would be full of great words (and caravans)

A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said

To ‘take the cake’, is to give the cake meaning

A Sometimes Cruel, Disturbing, and Absurd World…

A British man has been sentenced after being caught on CCTV sexually assaulting two horses with a paint brush which he also allegedly sniffed and licked

Book Title You Will Probably Never See…

How To Be Metaphorical In An Emergency: A Lion Is About To Eat You!
grayscale photography of yawning lioness 
A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question…

Did you just see the meaning of the world?

The Meaning of Life?

Working Remotely

Said No One, Probably Ever….

“Do as you do and don’t as you don’t, the goat is remote and now I feel like McDonald’s”

A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be…
53.3% of all people are happy for 62.22% of the day when it snows and the sky growls
 cabin fever signage near tall trees
From The Great Man Fernando Pessoa

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”


“My life has been one long and expensive advertisement and now I am cashing in…”

Go Absurd! Exercise:

Go past someone’s front yard and jollily exclaim,
“that’s an almighty tree you have there!”

A Sign You Will Probably Never See…

HELLO
BE
THINE
NAME

Going Absurd!

TEKE-TEKE / PIKOTARO

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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