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  2. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    One example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's function as expressed by its title as well as its incongruous ...

  3. Absurdism - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd. There is wide agreement that the term "absurd" implies a lack of meaning or purpose but there is also significant dispute concerning its exact definition and various versions have been suggested.

  4. Absurdist - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist may refer to: . Absurdism, the philosophical theory that life in general is absurd; Absurdist fiction, a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, etc. in which the characters cannot find any inherent purpose in life

  5. 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples - AOL

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    The post 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples appeared first on Reader's Digest. You've made a malapropism—and everyone from politicians to famous literature characters is guilty of errors ...

  6. Absurdist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. [1]

  7. Theatre of the absurd - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

  8. “Which Real-Life Cheat Codes Do You Know?” (33 Answers) - AOL

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    Image credits: anon If you’re a gamer, it’s likely that you know what a cheat code is. As an example, we could use the well-known game The Sims.Besides its iconic gameplay and storylines, the ...

  9. Paranoid fiction - Wikipedia

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    For example, a purely dystopian work typically explores the mechanisms and motives of the totalitarian state to keep its people under control, whereas one of paranoid fiction would concentrate more on the effects of the state on its inhabitants' mental and emotional well-being, and its implications on the decadent condition of society.