#surreal

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. ↗

— Dylan Moran

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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy. ↗

— Dylan Moran

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Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

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A brick and a blanket aptly describe my former roommate. He was as dumb as a brick, and only highly functional on a bed. Or so I heard—not that I’d know from personal experience.
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— Jarod Kintz

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A brick could be used as a floatation device. But only use it if the person drowning is a politician.
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— Jarod Kintz

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A blanket could be used as a tarp over one of those tiny circular inflatable pools for children. Well, you might call it a tarp, but I’d call it a trap. But I’ve already tried everything I can think of to silence the noisy neighbor kids, from mousetraps on lollipop sticks, to superglue disguised as lip gloss—and yet the shrieking continues.
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— Jarod Kintz

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The results of each Brick and Blanket test are so unique to each person that I’d be willing to bet (with your money, of course) that if you lined up two monozygotic twins, two clones of John Cleese, and Newton and Leibniz, no pair of answers would be identical. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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A brick, in the hands of a Mason, could be used to cover up and hide a secret handshake.
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— Jarod Kintz

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A blanket could be used as a magical flying apparatus, much like an Arabic rug, only with the addition of a brick you now have a pilot’s seat. Move over, NASA—the high tech of the future lays in the past. It also presently lays on my bed.
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— Jarod Kintz

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A brick and a blanket represent two lovers who can never be together. I simply forbid it!
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— Jarod Kintz

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