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  • He had still to undergo that hour on the pillory which Maître Florian Barbedienne had so judiciously added to the sentence of Messire Robert d’Estouteville; and all merely to prove the truth of John of Cumenes’s ancient physiological and psychological jeu de mots: Surdus absurdus.

    IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI 1917

  • I respectfully submit that we are seeing before our very eyes the introduction of homo absurdus.

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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