/lit/ - Literature

>>19521728
>>19521744
My first instinct was to agree with both of you but I can find instances that disagree. Part of the thing about timing in an absurd situation is that it requires misdirection, and the reader is provoked to compare his expectations with the actual result of the build-up. The more sudden and unexpected this comparison, the more shocking the reveal. Brevity being the soul of wit, the trigger for the comparison has to be something of a punchline. Even a one-liner typically has an identifiable turning point where the expectations of the first half are upset. It can just go on and on, adding one absurd detail after another, but that's unsatisfying for the same reason you can't just write 100,000 words of increasingly difficult monster battles and call it a novel.