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Rhinoceros by Ionesco (even watched it in the theater as a school trip), also The Plague (Albert Camus).

The build-up to the inevitable firing is something akin to an Ionesco play, one absurdity after the other.

They rely on vague analogies and emotions, quoting Ionesco but not providing actual reasoning.

As Ionesco may have said, the French for London is Paris.

I recommend Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism, Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and the play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco as starting examples.

I think few people measure explicitly the amount of that bureaucratic detachment (Chaplin, Kafka, Ionesco did) and even less see how it is necessary to progress.

> Over all, the research shows that countries should start preparing now for more citizens to relocate internally, according to Dina Ionesco of the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental group that coordinates action on migrants and development.

This threw me back to studying Ionesco at school - "Le roi se meurt!

The nonsense poets like Ionesco while really good are not comparable to Shakespeare precisely because there is sense in Shakespeare, even in Shakespeare's "nonsense".

"Short little difficult plays" - Anything by Ionesco: Rhinoceros, The Leader, etc., etc.

When I worked at SCO (well before the Caldera and Linux lawsuit crap), server names had "sco" in them, hence Scotty (a big old 68000 box), Crisco, Ionesco....

I like the naming trend and expect releases of Apache Ionesco, Apache Lovecraft, and Apache Poe real soon now.

And as far as I can tell he never consulted the author of the work to verify the correctness of his assertions) the symbolism in Ionesco's plays is to me, worthless.

I'm sort of imagining IBM human resources department now as some hellish mashup of Ionesco, Nietzsche and Ballard (with a piquant dollop of THX 1138 to provide that absurdist, institutionalized aroma IBM seemed to love.) At least the TVA was smart enough to recruit biological entities to run it's bureaucracy.