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Absurdism
Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humour, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing."
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The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
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― Only the Deplorable
― Only the Deplorable
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Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, in time, the consequence: suicide or recovery. In itself weariness has something sickening about it. Here, I must conclude that it is good. For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth
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― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
From absurdity to zen, esoteric to banal, fiction, non-fiction, This Is Not a Book Club for the …more
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