“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”
“Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare)Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him.”
“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”
“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”
“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back;but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”
“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”