“It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
“This was too absurd, and at the same time dismayingly tempting.”
“Ist es nicht absurd, daß einem die Erinnerung an gute zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?”
“And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.”
“While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday. ”