| In fact, it is an account of a desperate, doomed attempt to transcend meaninglessness. |
| It illustrates the Nietzschean belief that art can give form and closure to the meaninglessness of existence. |
| The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence. |
| It had begun as an experiment to prove the meaninglessness of best-seller lists, or indeed any standard that equates quantity with quality. |
| And if meaninglessness is the point, then they've done their job quite effectively. |
| Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities. |
