Word: surrealness
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...Southern's first novel, "Flash and Filigree" (1958), was written under the influence of Henry Green, a dialogue-driven, slightly surreal British novelist of the same period. The book is constructed around three masterful set pieces: a curious encounter between a creepy doctor and his long-winded patient; the taping of a TV game show called "What's My Disease?"; and what is without a doubt the ultimate '50s seduction-in-a-drive-in scene. Southern's dialogue is priceless, as the girl implores her fevered date, "...please don't, really don't please Ralph I can't darling...
...used to play a game where one brother would draw a surreal picture and the other would have to write a poem justifying the picture. He says the process was “somewhere between play and creative writing...
...surreal image of this one lone man on a snowy night, beating his drum, playing his harmonica and holding a ‘Stop the Bombing’ sign. There was no mass protest,” he says...
...later Turkish Cypriots before his role in the coup forced him into exile until the 1990s. DIED. DOUGLAS ADAMS, 49, British author of the cult sci-fi saga The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, California. The novel, a satirical and surreal look at the search for an answer to life and the universe (which turned out to be 42), sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and was followed by three sequels and a hit BBC TV series. CHARGED. STEPHEN ROACH, 27, Cincinnati police officer, with negligent homicide and obstructing official business...
...whole week has been pretty surreal,” Riegel said, adding that she expected to be back at work at 7 a.m. this morning...