Word: sequitur
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...interestingly complex and fraught with emotion. Admiring Robinson’s power of technique, however, does not guarantee understanding her significance. Some of her poems are narratives, but many are made up of quotes, observations, anecdotes, snatches of speech. “Everything I say is a trembling non sequitur,” Robinson writes in “Pepper,” and this is an accurate description of her style. Discerning the theme that unites her non sequiturs, however, can be difficult...
...Boston and Philadelphia, where psychiatrists interviewed the homeless in shelters, yield estimates as high as 85%. Yet only a small proportion, perhaps a quarter, of the homeless are former mental patients. So emptying the hospitals, the skeptics say, is not the major cause of homelessness. This is a non sequitur. The social policy mandating that old patients be pushed out of psychiatric hospitals also mandates that new patients be kept out. True, today's young schizophrenic is less likely than yesterday's ever to have been in a mental hospital. That does not mean that he is not mentally...
...heights, “Shady Business” achieves the anything-for-a-laugh lunacy that sends a production skipping merrily over credibility gaps. The appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
...reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...
...This non sequitur, delivered by one of Alex’s degenerate friends, was so powerful it almost made us soil our pants...