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This 'correction' of historical fact amounts to an admission that accuracy would not possess sufficient emotional value. And this is patently absurd. There is absolutely no dramatic reason to reach beyond history. But Montaldo seems unsure of the clarity of his position, and thus tacks on this utterly superfluous moral summation...
...kind of Russian roulette remained too a factor in my later life, so that without previous experience of Africa I went on an absurd and reckless trek through Liberia: it was the fear of boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong...
...Hall and baroque opera have one thing in common: both are absurd. Plodding, unsubtle, ridiculous plots in unvaried da capo musical structure keep works like Handel's Acis and Galatea out of the usual repertoire. But given a performance (even in concert form) of last Monday's quality, many of the better points of the genre can be exploited...
True, in another and better world, where homosexuality would go uncensured and unnoticed, Maurice would be little more than sentimental tripe. But in our world, the sentiment achieves an ironic edge, and the fond and gentle narrative counterpoints the absurd prejudices which kept the novel so long unread...
Leslie Krims, seen recently in MIT's Being Without Clothes Show, raises the status of mutated reality from repulsion to absurd insight. A nude woman pasted with snapshots of her son sits in the corner, two teenage nudes whose bosoms become the reiteration of targets on deer posters covering the wall, a dwarf couple are dwarfed by their collie and a grey, grainy Christmas tree-we are asked to look without judging but to acknowledge the absurdity of sloping floors and stunted growth...