Is the Absurd the key to the meaning of life? But if so, what is the Absurd? And where is it? Does it live, for example, in the apparently unbridgeable gap between humanity’s desperate cry for meaning and the world’s resolute refusal to respond, as Albert Camus concluded? But are these even legitimate questions? Can we sensibly talk about “the Absurd” as a proper noun, preceded by the definite article, as if it is a thing or some sort of tangible presence? Shouldn’t we perhaps take the path advocated by A.J. Ayer and the Logical Positivists (discussed in the previous…