And so it proved. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso laughed twice and smiled three or four times, for the comedy was not just light, to use the Mathematics teacher's conciliatory expression, it was, above all, absurd, ridiculous, a cinematographic monster in which logic and common sense had been left protesting on the other side of the door, having been refused entry into the place where the madness was being perpetrated.
— José Saramago