South Africa in the news: This endless circle of absurdity goes on and on – TAU SA: You may insist on having “the best” of everything – the best car, the best athletic club, the best social circle. But underneath this behavior often lies a fragile self-esteem. You have trouble …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
The absurdity of empire in JG Farrell’s The Singapore Grip: In 2017, the then British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson paid a visit to the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar. Approaching the giant Tharawaddy Min bell that hangs in the pavilion, Johnson began muttering lines from Rudyard Kipling’s classic imperial poem The Road to Mandalay: For …
Brontëk: the neo-Victorian play that pokes fun at the absurdity of Brontë family myths: Captblack76/Shutterstock Though the Brontës are known as English writers, their appeal has never been limited to the British Isles. From the Italian comic opera Le Sorelle Brontë (1963), by Alexandrian writer Bernard de Zogheb, to Yoshishige Yoshida’s Arashi ga Oka (1988), …