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The Absurd play, said Esslin, dispenses with conventional narrative in favour of the logic of dreams; furthermore, in a century stripped of certainties, the Absurd playwright understands that conversation, listened to closely, becomes "nonsensical illusions, empty chatter, whistling in the dark".

"I don't mind people having false illusions as long as they know that they're false," he says.

They strip each other's illusions to shreds, and we laugh, uncomfortably.

Before he tripped over his fork and fell on his avarice, George Radwanski repeatedly pointed out the dangers of sacrificing individual privacy rights to create the illusion of group security.

Maintaining illusions Notwithstanding all his efforts, the only semblance of a revolt of the poor is the antimodern Islamic tide, which from the Marxist point of view floats in a medieval dream.

Ideology aside, he apparently maintains the illusions that structured his political successes even if they never had very much truth in them; to this day, as one example, he speaks of Gorbachev's dissolution of the Soviet Union as unnecessary, ``a mistake.'' In short, there was no fatal contradiction inherent in the Soviet system that brought it down, and so there is nothing in the Castro system or in his take on reality that is creating the painful poverty of the island.

These realms are all about glamour and make-believe, fantasy and illusion.

As a rational scientist, he'd known that race was primarily a social construct, illusionary, but as the husband of an Indian woman and the father of Indian children, he'd since learned that race, whatever its construction, was real.

The seasons shift before my eyes like an illusion.

(If the sighting had taken place downriver in Pittsburgh, it would have been explained as an optical illusion created by smog layers.) Showers of blood, faces on floors, objects in the sky, the Dry Falls entity: they are one and the same.

They cannot be dismissed as illusions, phantoms, or figments.

The more wretched your life was, the closer you were to the truth, to the gritty nub of existence, and what could be more terrible than losing your old man six weeks after your twelfth birthday?It marked you as a tragic figure, disqualified you from the rat race of vain hopes and sentimental illusions, bestowed on you an aura of legitimate suffering.

It contains uncertainty, illusion, an element of make-believe or fantasy, and allows one to take risks, or explore new roles.

Disavow the illusion and the game is over.

The word illusion literally means "in play."This pampered childhood is enough to dispel quaint illusions about the necessary hardship of fifteenth-century life.

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