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l 我们的生活不是因为缺少必需品， 而是因为缺少了奢侈品。多余的财富只能够买多余的东西，人的灵魂必需的东西，是不需要花钱买的。奢华而盲目地消耗生命的人是花了一个人的生命中最宝贵的一部分来赚钱， 为了在最不宝贵的一部分时间里享受的人。人们关心的往往并不是真正应该尊重的东西， 只是关心那些受人尊敬的东西。（亨利大卫梭罗）


absurd, the, a term derived from the existentialism of Albert Camus, and often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness in a universe without meaning or value.

Many 20th century writers of prose fiction have stressed the absurd nature of human existence: notable instances are the novels and stories of Franz Kafka, in which the characters face alarmingly incomprehensible predicaments.

The critic Martin Esslin coined the phrase theatre of the absurd in 1961 to refer to a number of dramatists of the 1950s whose works evoke the absurd by abandoning logical form, character, and dialogue together with realistic illusion.

l The classic work of absurdist theatre revived some of the conventions of clowning and farce to represent the impossibility of purposeful action and the paralysis of human aspiration.

Aesthetic Movement, a movement which blossomed during the 1880s, heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, and Pater, in which the adoption of sentimental archaism as the ideal of beauty was carried to extravagant lengths and often accompanied by affectation of speech and manner and eccentricity of dress. 

It and its followers (e. g. Wilde) were much ridiculed in Punch, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience (1881), etc. See also ART FOR ART’S SAKE and GROSVENOR GALLERY.

a literary and artistic tendency of the late 19th century which may be understood as a further phase of Romanticism in reaction against philistine bourgeois values of practical efficiency and morality.

Aestheticism found theoretical support in the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant and other German philosophers who separated the sense of beauty from practical interests.

Elaborated as a principle of artistic independence, aestheticism was adopted in France and in England by Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and several poets of the 1890s, under the slogan ‘art for art’s sake’. Wilde and other devotees of pure beauty were sometimes known as aesthetes.