The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd.

Romania is often called the Land of Dada, not because one of its sons, Tristan Tzara, was a founder of Surrealism, but because of the absurdity and paradoxes of its daily life, particularly in its politics.

Of course, people who really want to be unkind will point out the absurdity of Russia s membership in a club that includes the giant economies of US, Germany, Japan, England, France, Italy, and (less so) Canada. Why wasn t Chinese president Hu Jintao, whose country s economy is the world s second largest (when measured at world prices), given a seat at the table instead of Putin?

The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd. And yet the authorities clearly believe that they had to make an example of him, to prevent others from expressing similar views.

Yes, the girl falls, absurd to fall, even the earth with its compulsion to take unto itself all that falls must know that falling is absurd, yet the girl falling isn't myself, or she is myself, but a self I took of my own volition unto myself.

Algeria's proposal, to partition the disputed territory was a political absurdity because it irrevocably separated individuals, families and tribes and divided a Territory that was an integral whole the aim was not to confer rights on the people involved but rather to satisfy those who wanted an independent republic separate from Morocco.