Dorothy Parker - INVENTORY - A poet counts the absurdity of her ways and, defiantly, her means ...

Let's start with some literary quotes relevant to the poem at hand:

'It is absurd to divide people into good or bad.
People are either charming or tedious'.
- Oscar Wilde

'The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning'.
- Albert Camus

'Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving'.
- Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

'Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance'.
- David Lynch

'Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied'.
- Douglas Adams

'This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity'.
- Albert Camus

'In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods'.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

'Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble'.
- Samuel Johnson

'Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity'.
- Vaclav Havel

'Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. The absurdity may turn out truer'.
- D. H. Lawrence

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity'.
- Iain Sinclair

'That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another'.
- Adlai Stevenson I

'A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk'.
- Oswald Mosley

'When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith'.
- Junius

This channel uses (i.e., re-frames, refits and hopefully refreshes) poetry / verse (from classical to contemporary) as an interactive tool to help promote confidence through the Will to Dream FOR ALL. Enjoy.

BEST TO LISTEN TO THIS WITH EARPHONES AND TO LOWER VOLUME WHEN DOING SO -- (NB TO THIS END: If listening/watching this poem on a modern mobile/cell phone/tablet PLEASE REDUCE VOLUME BY AT LEAST A THIRD – BEST PERHAPS AT A HALF OR – EVEN BETTER - A QUARTER. If on an older PC - as, say, a goodly number of historic educational centres possess - please leave it as is. Technology has yet to achieve maximum equalisation in all quarters it seems. Would that it had. They promise I’m sure to get there soon. The poem will – in any case – out; nay, speak for itself.)

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