From our
Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas:
CLEAR AND COHERENT ABSURDITY: "I think I agree with Joyce's lapsed Catholic hero in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 'What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?' The religious celebration of Christmas is at least a clear and coherent absurdity. The commercial celebration is not even that." —
Umberto Eco, "God Isn’t Big Enough for Some People"