ABSURDITY / COMEDY–TRAGEDY / EDITING

Sasha expressed interest in absurd structures. Comedy may intensify tragic material through contrast. Unexpected failure may reveal a useful direction.

The method also depends on selection, cutting, reordering, shortening, contextualising and discarding.

“Oh shit, it doesn’t work — let’s keep it.”

Interpret this as openness to productive failure, not an instruction to preserve every unsuccessful idea.