Word: absurdities
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...page Conrad's first wife dies in childbirth, the grandparents are denied the right to take care of the baby, and then are suddenly put in charge anyway because Conrad can't be bothered with it. (As if he wouldn't know about nannies.) Later, in a typically absurd scene, Conrad reclaims custody by personally kidnapping the child in the middle of the night. Eisner means for the story to have an archetypal, fairy tale aspect, hammered home by the written-out "fairy tale" version of the story at the end. But fairy tales are not novels. The morals become...
...herself through the day, she's keeping a diary for the first time since high school. The story she spins recasts the past in a way that makes Greg's death inevitable because, of course, it was so absurd. She thinks she was preparing herself for a time without him: like the day in August when she asked him for the password to access the family budget on Microsoft Money, or when she inquired about how to change a tire and he sent her an AAA card embossed with her own name--not his. The narrative turns on the night...
Erlich is hilarious throughout. He’ll say anything to get the girl and introduces himself to the audience in a frenetic, hormone-driven shpiel filled with name-dropping and absurd anecdotes. Without surrendering the humor of the role, Erlich manages to hint at the many levels of a seemingly shallow womanizer...
...track racers to heavy weight junior champions to prima ballerinas. When asked whether those girls merited being labeled as the coolest girls in the country, Madeleine responded, “I didn’t merit being one of the coolest girls in America. It’s an absurd proposition in the first place...
...treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which, Segal argues, marked, “the end of the life cycle of genre?...