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Chronologically, the chapters range widely from Dante to Vaclav Havel, and offer a large span of national literatures (Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese) and literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama), inviting the readers to trace their own pathway and draw their own lines of connection. One point that emerges with particular force is the notion that what distinguishes literary nonsense is its somehow regulated nature. Literary nonsense thus sounds like a deliberate, last-ditch attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos-the speech of the Fool as opposed to the tale told by an idiot. 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