"I thought it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there really was something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way tha one day everything will be made clear"
The words of Eugeune Ionesco, French writer of absurd affection e.g. "The Chairs" (1952)
For more on absurdist/existentialist theatre: http://www.kat.gr/kat/history/Txt/Gl/Existentialism.htm
It's fascinating, am studying it at school.
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