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...healthy concentration on a rare bug or a rhythmic phrase. Another thing that might have been of some help is the fact that I am subject to the embarrassing qualms of superstition: a number, a dream, a coincidence can affect me obsessively-though not in the sense of absurd fears but as fabulous, and on the whole rather bracing scientific enigmas incapable of being stated, let alone solved...
...Alithea (Sally Faith Dorfman) is the only one who does not what to join in the sport. She sincerely believes in fidelity, yet even she is not a completely positive figure. Her virtue appears ridiculous because her finance. Sparkish, to whom she is so stubbornly faithful, is the most absurd...
...Iolanthe is perhaps the main reason why William Gilbert did not receive his knighthood until shortly before he died. The show attacks the House of Lords, the law, the bourgeoisie, and Wagner (all of which deserve attacking). The peers are savagely caricatured, given Wagnerian leitmotivs and placed in absurd situations. The humor of the book is alternately subtle and broad, but, when done well, always amusing...
Solanas uses the aristocracy's own comment on images of itself to reinforce the overview of their antirational orientation he has already set up; their own baroque music to raise their monuments and cemetery to absurd heights of grandeur, to emphasize the stagnant, death-like concentration of wealth in this elite and isolated class. The clearly-drawn irony of the Argentine national anthem (sung by an opera singer in the European classical tradition), being dubbed over sordid scenes of a knife fight between hungry men and young boys and an old cripple waiting for a prostitute, exposes the fundamental contradiction...
...equally impractical?absurd, in fact?to envision some other kind of U.S. court staging a neo-Nuremberg war-crimes trial with Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk or Lyndon Johnson in the dock. It is one thing to say that such civilian leaders bear major responsibility for the war and the course it took, but quite another to expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that...